Category Archives: Publishing
One year later
A year ago at this time, I was about to embark on my sabbatical. I had drafted a couple of brief sections of what would become Active Calculus, but had almost nothing of substance written. By May, I had a … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, calculus, free, integral calculus, resources
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Textbook Inflation
A recent US News and World Report article focuses on the high rate at which textbook costs have been rising and explains how the costs are divided among bookstores and textbook companies. While overall inflation is currently low, not so … Continue reading
A different challenge to publishers
From Insider Higher Ed, an interesting article on the startup “Boundless Learning”, which endeavors to provide text-like materials to students free of charge. “It does so, essentially, through reverse engineering — identifying widely used textbooks in certain fields (three last … Continue reading
Initial Public Offering: Differential Calculus
[Update in January 2013: in addition to an updated version of the differential portion of the text, I’m pleased to publicly share four additional chapters for integral calculus. See the download page at my GVSU site and/or this post here … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, calculus, free, online, resources
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Open Textbooks
At Mathfest, I had the pleasure of meeting Rob Beezer and having some extended conversation with him. Rob is a longtime proponent of free and open textbooks, as well as the author of one himself. After my talk he said … Continue reading
Keith Devlin on Self-Publishing
“The procedure is so ridiculously straightforward, I can see no reason why anyone should ever publish another textbook a different way, given the huge expense of textbooks.” Read the whole thing: http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-future-of-textbook-publishing-is-us.html
