On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:28:08 -0500 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 11/17/2009 09:13 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > I'm currently co-authoring a book for Pearson, so I would agree > > that they are worth considering as a publisher -- IF one is > > interested in writing another general-purpose book for beginners. > > --Jean > > Would depend on their intent. If it is simply a beginner book that > will stand alone, I doubt if it will go anywhere. If, however, they > had something else in mind, perhaps... > Pearson is one of the largest text-book producers in the world. I think most of my uni texts are published by pearson or a subsidiary. As the education department here in NSW is going to be moving to openoffice.org sometime in the near future[1], it may be that they are hoping to produce material for that market. If it becomes the norm to use openoffice.org in more schools they will want to enter that textbook market. Cheers Shelagh [1] I worked for a couple of weeks in a school office and that was the latest scuttlebutt at that time. But I think it is a plan to use openoffice.org in schools here. Or maybe they are already using it. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FE73A77E2BB96F21CC257425007DCB21 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jabber: [email protected] Skype: shelagh2648 ----------------------------------------------------------------
