Add to List

Added to

Unable to add item to List. Please try again.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Follow the Author

Beth Luey

Handbook for Academic Authors 4th Edition

by Beth Luey (Author)

4.2 4 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$3.00

$84.00

$3.00

Paperback

"Please retry"

—

$0.99

$1.35

Paperback, June 10, 2002

—

$8.00

$2.00

There is a newer edition of this item:

Handbook for Academic Authors: How to Navigate the Publishing Process
$31.00
(1)
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

Are you trying to publish an article or monograph, revise a dissertation, create a new textbook, compile an anthology, or write a trade book? Should you sign the publishing contract you have been offered? Is it wise to publish in an electronic journal? How much can you expect to earn from your writing? What are your legal and ethical responsibilities as an author? What can you expect from your publisher? In the fourth edition of this widely recommended book, Beth Luey offers answers to these questions, as well as practical advice on negotiating a contract, preparing an electronic manuscript, seeking permission to reproduce text or artwork, choosing illustrations, and indexing. She also suggests ways to write clearly not only for one's peers but also for students and general readers. A chapter on the business side of publishing explains costs and pricing for print and electronic products. This edition brings advice to academic authors fully into the age of the Internet and the World Wide Web; both the text and the bibliography have been completely updated and a new chapter evaluates various electronic media for different kinds of publications and suggests ways for the technologically ambitious author to use them to best advantage. Beth Luey teaches and does research on the history of the book, scholarly publishing and current issues in authorship and reading at Arizona State University. She is the author (with Martha Broderson) of A Guide to Book Publisher Archives (Book Industry Study Group, 1996) and The Structure of International Publishing (Transaction Publishers, 1992).

ISBN-10

0521891981
ISBN-13

978-0521891981
Edition

4th
Publisher

Cambridge University Press
Publication date

June 10, 2002
Language

English
Dimensions

5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
Print length

340 pages
See all details

Customer reviews

4.2 out of 5

4 global ratings

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star 0% (0%)		0%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

pharaoh20x

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2017

Verified Purchase

a++

Helpful

Mary McKinney

Good advice for professors trying to publish academic books

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2004

This is a useful book, although I think that the title is somewhat misleading. The book covers a very specific topic: the many details of submitting and publishing an academic book. It does not cover writing for peer-review journals and thus will be rather unhelpful for the academics in fields where articles rather than books are the royal road to tenure.

What Luey covers, however, she covers very well. She comes to the topic with a wealth of experience -- true "insider's knowledge". She edited scholarly books and textbooks for a decade; she's taught scolarly editing and publishing; she even formed a small publishing company. All in all, as she puts it, she's been an "editor, indexer, publisher, production manager, and shipping clerk."

Luey covers the details of publishing scholarly books from start to finish, including specific types of books such as textbooks and multi-author collections of articles or essays. Financial details, such as royalties, are explained from the point of view of both author and publisher. Luey is very helpful in giving professors a sense of publishers' pressures and business considerations. She discusses how to consider which publisher is most appropriate for submitting a proposal as well as the form and mechanics of submissions. She describes contracts and tells what to look for before signing. She tells how to prepare the typescript and illustrations professionally. I thought that her explanation of why the prices of academic books varies was an interesting topic.

I am a professional counselor and coach to junior faculty and graduate students and I'm very glad to have found this book. I will definitely recommend it to the people I work with who are in the process of revising their dissertations to be published. Her explanations of how the content and style of a dissertation must be transformed in order to publish are excellent. This chapter, "Revising a Dissertation" and will be especially useful to junior academics in humanities and social science departments in which turning the dissertation into the first book is an expected prerequisite of tenure. If you are working on your first scholarly book Luey's advice will help you through the process.

26 people found this helpful

Helpful

Anne Wallingford

Handbook for Academic Authors

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2005

This is a good book, just not what I needed. (I was looking more for information on copyright rules.) But for an academic author learning the ropes, it has some solid information.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Sorry, there was a problem.

Sorry, there was a problem.

Follow the Author

Handbook for Academic Authors 4th Edition

There is a newer edition of this item:

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.