2006 Press Releases

November 2006
TAA In the News:

Dr. John Fuller's book getting rave reviews
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Paul Knox wins 2005 Text and Academic Authors Association Award
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Writer's Groups Not Backing Down in Fight With Google
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Yahoo to digitize public domain books
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On My Desk: Why are textbooks expensive?
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Courts Unlikely to Stop Google Book Copying
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Newswatch India
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Google Takes On Copyright Laws
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Professor's Book on Internet Legalities Earns 'Texty' Award
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US authors to sue over Google Print Library project
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Yahoo jumps on the library bandwagon
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June 30, 2006
TAAFreceives $15,000 gift
TAA member Betty Azar has made a $15,000 unrestricted gift to the TAA Foundation. Azar, the author of the bestselling Azar Grammar Series, published by Pearson Longman, said she hoped her gift would encourage other textbook authors of perennial bestsellers to support the Foundation with significant contributions.
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February 15, 2006
Stomp the Comp
by Richard Hull, TAA Executive Director
The old bugbear of textbook authors and publishers, the purchaser of used books, is on the prowl again, this time on a Northeastern U.S. college campus. And this time, the effort to purchase instructors' copies to resell to students is blatant.
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