| Writing for Stylex: A Note for Prospective Authors Stylex is not a vanity-type publishing company. We do not accept payment from authors to publish their textbooks and/or software. Our contracts are standard contracts like the contracts offered to prospective full product aurhors and chapter contributors throughout the United States by other major publishing companies. Stylex takes the investment risk, not their authors. After discussing your preliminary ideas for a Stylex publication with Stylex, you will, at Stylex discretion, be invited to submit a table of contents, sample chapter, and information on target population(s) to Stylex. If, at the end of that process and the further review of your proposal by other professors in the field, you may be encouraged to modify your proposal for continuing review toward the issue of a contract. While we understand the desire of some prospective authors to lower Stylex's risk by co-funding projects, among the many reasons Stylex has never operated that way are: 2) many universities frown upon professors paying for their own publications. Right or wrong, that may lower the university's perceived value of the publication. That would not be good for the author and in turn, would not reflect well on Stylex quality. Another issue that comes up from time to time is requests that Stylex continuously publish new editions of the same textbooks just as other major publishing companies often do. While we understand that bookstores buy back used copies and resell them to students, thereby severly limiting the number of bookstore purchases of the original textbooks from publishing companies, and while we realize that publishing companies often feel pressured to come out with new editions so that they can continue to have sales, Stylex will not engage in that activity, not because it wants fewer sales, but because it does not have the resources to continuously publish new editions. Furthermore, many adopting professors frown upon such behavior of publishing companies. Stylex will come out with new editions only when there is sufficient new information to warrant new editions. That varies among topics and the desire of writers to keep rewriting their manuscripts. Therefore, to the students' advantage, not necessarily to the author's or publisher's advantage, authors should not expect that writing for Stylex will ensure the ability to come out with new editions every year. If you believe your project 1) has a very small market, 2) is of a quality only to be respected by a few friends, or 3) will necessarily guarantee publication of new editions each year, please consider sending your proposal directly to a vanity-type press, not to Stylex. Stylex will not be able to help you with such projects. Please understand that this does not at all necessarily reflect on the quality of your vanity-type propoposal nor on your writing ability. Another source of publication may be a university press that has a foundation that funds publication of speciality titles. We wish you all the best with such projects and encourage you to share your knowledge with the appopriate community any way you can. When you are ready to write for a national audience, please consider Stylex Publishing Corporation, LLC. We will certainly help you with advice along the process. Stylex has had hundreds of university program and classroom adoptions of our books and software. Write Stylex for further information regarding proposal submission by clicking on the email icon below . |
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