History: We wrote what is now volume 2 on electromagnetism completely on our own, to use with our own students and a few interested colleagues. Wiley heard about it and decided to publish it, essentially as a service to the physics education community, not expecting that it would ever be widely used (and it is still not widely used, with only about 50 adoptions). Later we wrote volume 1 on mechanics as a prequel. At no time did we receive an advance.
Bruce On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Edward Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of the major publishers were known for contracting with multiple > authors for books in the same area and then only publishing one of them. At > least, authors had an advance so they didn't come away with nothing. The > Apple contract doesn't even propose that. Authors I've spoken to in both he > trade and college book area feel that when signing a contract they figure > they won't make money beyond the advance. But no advance? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
