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Required information to obtain proposal:
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Proposal Questionnaire (see below)
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Preliminary Table of Contents & list of
contributors
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Sample chapter (good to have, but not
required)
Preliminary Book Information Form.
Please answer as many of these questions as you can. This
information will help
us to decide if we can successfully publish your book. You do
not need to fill
in all of the details at the moment, but the more information
you provide at this
point, the easier it will be for us to make a decision. If the
book
does get contracted then much of this information will help us
to market the book
effectively.
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--- SECTION 1 - GENERAL ---
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1.1 Contact details of author/editor:
Name+Title(s) Address(work+private for royalty payment)
Email+URL
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1.2 Title of manuscript:
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1.3 Subtitle (if applicable):
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1.4 Series (if applicable):
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1.5 Expected completion date of the manuscript:
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1.6 Estimated number of typed pages:
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1.7 Type of work:
monograph
new material
edited volume
previously published material
conference proceedings
invited papers only
text book
other:
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1.8 Can the text be supplied in electronic format?
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1.9 What format would you prefer to work in?
TeX/LaTeX
doc
HTML
pdf
other:
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1.10 Will your book be a translation?
yes, original language:
no
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1.11 Do you think that language editing will be necessary?
yes
no
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1.12 Name and address of each author/editor as they should
appear on
the book cover (i.e. only author(s) or volume editor(s), not the
series editors or contribution authors). Please mark surnames
with a '*':
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1.13 To apply for copyright and registration with the Library of
Congress and other bibliographic services we additionally need
the
following information about each author/editor:
Last name First name+Middle initial Date of birth Citizenship
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SECTION 2 - AUDIENCE
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2.1 What disciplines, in order of importance, are addressed by
your
book? Please be as specific as possible.
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2.2 What professions or groups of people are likely to want to
buy
your book? Please indicate their relative importance by giving
estimates in percent (total=100%).
Academic/Corporate/Hospital Libraries .................%
Practitioners / Professionals .................%
Scientists / Researchers .................%
Lecturers/Tutors .................%
Graduates .................%
Undergraduates .................%
Others (please specify)_____________ .................%
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2.3 Please give us, in order of importance, up to five names and
addresses of any individual, group or organization you know of
who
would be willing to help us in promoting and selling your book.
Promotion could be either through conferences, workshops,
seminars,
tutorials, summer- or winter-schools or any other type of
lecture
attracting a suitably large audience (for genuine textbooks
(course
books), see section 3.1) - or by reviewing your book (for
journals
see section 2.4).
Name Full address(incl. e-mail/URL) Type of promotion
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2.4 Please list, in order of importance, all relevant journals
and
periodicals which could review or advertise your book.
Title Publisher Country
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2.5 Please recommend, in order of importance, the congresses you
consider important within the first two years following the
publication of your book.
Event Venue+Date Organizers(address/e-mail/URL)
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2.6 Do you have information about your book/journal, your work,
or
yourself on a Web server? Equally, do you know of, or
participate in
pertinent Websites, News Groups bulletin boards, or mailing
lists on
the Internet? If so, please provide all the necessary URLs so we
can
include these in our promotion.
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SECTION 3 - SUBJECT MATTER
If your book is a genuine textbook (course book) please complete
section 3.1, otherwise go to section 3.2.
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3.1.a Please give all relevant details about the type of courses
for
which your book is suitable.
Course name Faculty/Department Level+Length Comments
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3.1.b We usually send a limited number of free inspection copies
to
carefully selected lecturers. Please give details about any
particular course you know of for which your book is suitable
and
which is currently being (or about to be) held.
Lecturer(name/address/Email/URL) Course details(+no.of students)
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3.1.c Does your book contain the following features (please
extend
this list where appropriate)? Give details where possible.
Chapter and section summaries:
detailed derivation of results:
Many detailed illustrations:
End-of-chapter exercises/questions:
answers to exercises/questions:
fully worked-out solutions to exercices/questions:
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3.1.d What content or teaching/learning features should be
stressed
in promotion to potential users of your text?
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3.2 Please describe for someone familiar with your subject
exactly
what distinguishes your book. This will serve as the basis for
our
promotional texts. The following guidelines may help:
Subject and level of book * Subjects emphasised and why *
Particular
terminology * Particular method * Particular results * Special
layout features * Internet support * Diskette/CD-ROM * Benefits
to
readership of section 2.2
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3.3 If this is not the first edition of your book, state the
improvements over the last edition.
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3.4 Please write a short description of your book which we can
use
as a basis for the back cover and in promotion pieces (max. 1020
characters).
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3.5 Please give a maximum of five keywords, stated in the order
of
importance, which serve to catalogue the subject matter.
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3.6 In sales to libraries, library buyers afford very little
time looking at
individual titles. We try to provide a number of unique selling
points for each
of our titles. As you know you book better than anyone, if
possible please provide
no more than 3 unique selling points for your book that
distinguish it from other
books. For example, "This volume provides the only detailed
explaination of
method X.", or "This is the first book to report on experiment
Z."
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3.7 Please state brief career details, and - where relevant -
those
of your co-authors/co-editors, which we can use in promoting
your
book and/or for the book jacket.
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3.8 Our Sales & Marketing Department is always looking for
useful
book reviews. If this is not your first book, please detail
sources
of good reviews you have had, even if the books concerned were
not
published by Springer-Verlag. Alternatively, simply enclose
photocopies of the reviews themselves (please remember to state
the
source).
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SECTION 4 - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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4.1 Which books compete directly with yours? Please state the
number
of pages, price, year of publication and publisher, and explain
how
your book differs and why it is better. Please emphasise those
books
currently in print.
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4.2 Are there any other comments or suggestions you would like
to
make?
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Date completed: (Signature)
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Thank you for taking the time to help us. We will do our best to
use
as much of this information as possible in advertising your
book.
We wish you every success in the further development of your
work
and look forward to seeing your book in its finished form.
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