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When requesting a desk copy, please submit all of the following information from an official university email account and in the body of the email. The examination copy of a book will also serve as a desk copy if the book. Desk copies the penguin publishing group supplies one free desk copy for every 20 copies of an adopted text required by instructors at accredited colleges. Request an exam or desk copy baker publishing group. Braziller donated proceeds from the sale of 1,200 copies to ransom the work. When you never said goodbye is a novel written mostly in the form of poems and journal entries. We also publish a select number of books for middle and high schools.
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Textbook and course book policy uw press books home. If a professor were to place the copy of the book on reserve in the library, this use would also be considered a fair use. Harvard common press publishes books in the cookery and pregnancychildbirth cateories. We are also happy to provide desk copies and additional teaching materials to qualified adopters of our text books. In ridiculous light, valencia robin captures the everyday and the.
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Desk copies are available for any textbook that has been assigned as a primary not suggested text in a scheduled class for the current or following term and is on order with a bookstore. It features styles for keeping the fonts and spacing formatted properly, a title page, and the starting chapter. You can often find their books in bookstores, libraries, schools, and universities. In addition to bread givers, yezierska wrote several novels and books of short stories, including how i found america, red ribbon on a white horse, and all i could never be forthcoming from persea in. Imprints at perseus include avalon travel publishing home to rick steves and the moon guides, basic books. Jun 15, 2018 persea books is an independent book publisher based out of new york that was established in the 1970s. Persea books submission manager powered by submittable accept and curate digital content. Desk copies are complimentary books sent to professors who have already adopted the book for a course. Clarion books is an imprint of the houghton mifflin harcourt books for young readers division.
To serve you in the best way possible, we ask that you. A desk or exam copy is a copy of a textbook sent to an educator in the hope that they will adopt the text for their course. Both of these criteria must be met before a desk copy can be shipped to you. A complimentary desk copy is provided with the understanding that 15 or more new copies of the book will be purchased by students for the course. Turner publishing company is an awardwinning, independent publisher of books. How to turn both paper and digital text into an e book. A publisher of fine books and pocket book editions, peter pauper press accepts manuscript submissions meeting all listed guidelines. This free book site is really simple to use, but maybe too simple. Due to the covid19 pandemic, desk copies will not be fulfilled with print editions we will instead provide oneyear access to an e book. Persea has published hundreds of engaging and consequential books covering a wide range of subjects, styles, and genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, biography, and revived classics. Persea books was founded with goal of publishing the finest literature possible.
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