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Dewi Jackson - Assistant Commissioning Editor (Mathematics and Statistics)
Academic and Professional Science
Academic Division
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1. Full name and qualifications:
2. Address and telephone number:
3. Present position:
4. Career to date:
5. Publications (if any):
6. Provisional title of your proposed work:
7. Please state in detail the subject of your proposed book and indicate its academic level.
8. Please state briefly the purpose of your book and the way in which it is achieved.
9. Why do you believe the book is needed?
10. Principal UK market for the book (quantity if possible):
11. Secondary UK markets:
12. Will there be a market in the USA or Europe? Please comment if different from UK market.
13. For which courses would the book be the sole or principal required text?
14. For which courses would the book be one of several required texts?
15. For which courses would the book be supplementary reading?
16. Please give details of professional staff in industry or business who would use the book (i.e. sales manager, production manager, etc.).
17. What competing titles are available? (Please give, if possible, author, title, publisher and price).
18. What particular advantages has your proposed book over competitive books?
19. How quickly do you think your book might become out of date?
20. What is the approximate number of words required for your proposed book? (A typed single side of an A4 sheet, double-spaced, contains about 325 words).
21. What is the approximate number of illustrations required? (Indicate whether diagrams or photographs.)
22. What time would you require from the present stage to delivery of a final manuscript?
23. Please give the names and address of two people who would be qualified to give an opinion on your work (NB we shall not necessarily approach these people).
24. Please add any further information that you think might be helpful to us in evaluating this proposal.
25. Please return with this form (if you have not sent it already) either a detailed synopsis of your book or a list of chapter headings and a full indication of the contents of each chapter. Any sections of the manuscript which you have already written should also be enclosed.
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Date: ........................................................................
