A BRIEF HISTORY

THE PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING A TEXTBOOK PROPOSAL

• PROSPECTUS
  • The Text
  • The Market and the Competition
  • The Ancillary Program
  • Other Information
  • Annotated Table of Contents
  • Sample Chapters
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Special Note

THE PUBLISHING VENTURE

• THE PUBLISHING PROCESS
  • Development
  • Production
  • Marketing and sales
• Basic Decisions
  • Length
  • Length estimates
  • Publication date
  • Delivery of manuscript
  • Illustration program
  • Ancillaries

• What Copyright Signifies
  • Copyright on written work
  • Copyright on illustrative work
  • Who holds copyright
  • Duration of copyright
  • Trademarks
  • Libel
• Material Requiring Permission
  • Text
  • Expressive works
  • Unpublished material
  • Collections of facts: charts, tables, and other line art
  • Pictures
  • Translations
  • Internet/World Wide Web/Screen shots
• "Fair Use"
  • Limitations
  • Cumulative word counts
  • Expressive works
  • Quotations within quotations
  • Public domain
• Clearing Permissions
  • General
  • Forms
  • Timing
  • Adaptations
  • The permissions file
  • Credit lines
  • Time restrictions
  • Contracts
  • Organizing the file
  • Sending in the file
  • Fees
• Renegotiating Permissions

• Order as Organization
  • Major divisions of the table of contents
  • The balance of fact and idea
  • Approach and organization
  • Paragraph structure
  • Transitions
  • Active reading
• Headings
  • Levels
  • Forms of headings
  • Positioning and typing
• Cross-References
• Footnotes
• Bibliographies
• Manuscripts Requiring Special Characters
• Features and Pedagogy
  • Features
  • Pedagogy

• Preparation of Text on Disks
  • Software and disks
  • Naming files
  • Paper
  • Number of copies
  • Typing
  • Quotations and extracts
  • Cross-references
  • Footnotes
  • Headings
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Pagination
  • Bibliography
  • Final reading and corrections
  • Special characters
• Preparation of Text from Tearsheets
  • Original Tearsheets
  • Photocopied tearsheets
  • Mounting tearsheets
  • Editing tearsheets
    • Sample Tearsheet Page and Manuscript Page
• Front and End Matter
  • Title page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • End matter
• Sending the Manuscript

• Purpose
• Definitions
• Line Art and Other Illustrations
  • Submission
  • Art manuscript
  • Labeling
    • Sample Art Spec 1
    • Sample Art Spec 2
    • Sample Art Spec 3
  • Sources and permissions
• Photographs
  • Your own photographs
  • Researched photographs
    • Sample Photo Specs Page
  • Sources and permissions
  • Model releases
  • Some cautions
• Artwork, Photos, and Manuscript
  • Numbering
  • Changes in numbering
  • Text references
  • Captions
• A Last Word

• Consistency
• Style and Spelling
  • Style manuals
  • Electronic style and electronic sources
  • Language usage guides and handbooks
  • Dictionaries
• Capitalization
  • Offices and titles
  • Historical periods and events
  • Centuries and decades
  • Derivations from proper nouns
  • Trademarks
  • Titles of works
  • After a colon
• Hyphens
  • Compound nouns
  • Compound modifiers
  • Prefixes
  • Fractions
• Punctuation
  • Commas
  • Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses
  • Periods
  • Ellipsis points
  • Possessives of names ending in s
  • Quotation marks
  • Parentheses
• Numbers
  • The general rule
  • Exceptions
  • Beginning a sentence
  • Commas
  • Inclusive numbers
  • Inclusive years
  • Dates
• Footnotes
  • First reference: books
  • First reference: periodicals
  • Specimen citations
  • Subsequent references
• Bibliographies
  • Consistency with footnote style
  • Specimen entries
  • Essay style
• Your Own Style Sheet
  • Sample Style Sheet

• Preliminary Editions
  • Writing a preliminary edition
  • Producing a preliminary edition
  • Ancillaries
  • Class-testing preliminary editions
  • A work-in-progress
• Instructor's Annotated Editions
  • Sample Manuscript Annotation

• Technical Manuscripts
  • Planning
  • Using a computer
  • The style sheet
  • Numbering systems
  • Equations and chemical formulas
  • Matrices and determinants
  • Footnotes
  • Units of measure and abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • Numbers
  • Fractions
  • Superscripts and subscripts
  • Decimals
  • Ellipses
  • Chemistry notation
  • Chemical structures
• Computer Programs
• Illustrations
• Index