August
3, 2007
Houghton
Mifflin to purchase Harcourt Education
Houghton Mifflin
Company signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Harcourt
Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions of
Reed Elsevier. Houghton Mifflin will acquire the Harcourt businesses
in a transaction valued at $4 billion, consisting of $3.7 billion
in cash and $300 million in common stock of Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep
Group PLC (Houghton Mifflin's parent company). The combined business
will be led by Tony Lucki, Chairman, President and CEO of Houghton
Mifflin, and former CEO of Harcourt Education and Harcourt, Inc.
Completion of the transaction, which is expected in late 2007
or early 2008, is subject to regulatory review.
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University
of Rochester launches new publishing house
In conjunction
with its developing literary translation programs, the University
of Rochester is launching Open Letter, a new publishing house
dedicated to international literature. Beginning in fall 2008,
Open Letter will publish twelve works of international literature
a year, focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature
from around the world. Open Letter's first publication will be
Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic (Thank You for Not Reading,
Museum of Unconditional Surrender). The other title currently
signed on to the initial list is Bragi Olafsson's The Pets. These
titles will be available at better bookstores everywhere. This
new publishing venture is one of the key components in the University
of Rochester's academic programs designed to train a new generation
of literary translators and writers. In addition to publishing
trade books, Open Letter will oversee Three Percent (www.rochester.edu/threepercent),
a new website featuring an international lit blog, reviews of
untranslated books, sample translations, and a calendar of grants
and prizes for translation.
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Blog
reviews scholarly communication issues
Duke University's
Scholarly Communications Officer Kevin Smith launched a scholarly
communications blog that tracks the latest legal and news articles
on legal topics that range from authors' rights to copyright issues
and from digital rights to fair use law, as well as what's happening
in Congress and the federal regulatory system. View the blog at
http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/
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Check out
the following Q&A on the used textbook issue by Textbooks.org
http://www.textbookfacts.org/pdf/FAQs_Used_Textbooks.pdf
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2008 TAA
Conference to be held June 20-21 at Harrah's in Las Vegas
TAA's 2008
TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring will be held June
20-21 at Harrah's in Las Vegas. The room rate will be $99 per
night. Harrah's is located on the Las Vegas strip between the
Imperial Palace and Casino Royale, across from the Mirage. Both
the sleeping and meeting rooms will be located in the hotel's
Mardi Gras Tower. Visit the Harrah's Las Vegas website at https://www.harrahs.com/casinos/harrahs-las-vegas/hotel-casino/property-home.shtml
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TAA headquarters
phone line out of order
The TAA headquarters
phone and fax lines will be out of order for up to a week because
of technical problems associated with switching over to a new
phone service provider. If you need to contact TAA by phone, call
Executive Director Richard Hull at (850) 893-6539 or Associate
Executive Director Kim Pawlak at (608) 687-3106.
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Check
out TAA's new 'How-to' section
Click
here for the How-to section
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Share
a How-to
Share your
expertise with other TAA members by writing an article for TAA's
'How-To' section. Contact Associate Executive Director Kim Pawlak
for details: kmpawlak@centurytel.net
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Getting
to first base: How to pitch your textbook idea to publishers
Janet Belsky
shares some thoughts about what editors are really looking for
as you pick your way through the prospectus (or guidelines for
authors): Click here
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How
to improve your role in the peer review process
Gayle Brazeau
shares suggestions for how peer reviewers can improve the quality
of their role in the peer review process: Click
here
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TAA
welcomes new members
Rich Underwood,
Alberto M. Ochoa, Patricia Olson, Seth Maislin, Shelley Shaffer,
David McIntyre, Scot Ober and Lynn Marecek.
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TAA
thanks contributing member
Jay Devore
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TAA
gift memberships
Richard Hull
gave a gift membership to Kimberly Blessing. Thanks Richard! Welcome
Kimberly!
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Busy TAA
People: Matt Stevens
TAA member
Matt Stevens' book, Managing a Construction Firm on
Just 24 Hours a Day, published by McGraw-Hill, was reviewed
by ENR.com (Engineering News-Record): Click
here
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