Category: Industry Information

  • How to Market Your Book Part 3: Frontlist Promotion

    How to Market Your Book Part 3: Frontlist Promotion

    “How to Market Your Book Part 3: Frontlist Promotion” guides authors through making the most of their book-marketing efforts immediately preceding and following publication.

  • How to Market Your Book: Prepublication Preparation

    How to Market Your Book: Prepublication Preparation

    Master marketing your book without the stress. This first post in our “How to Market Your Book” series covers how writers can proactively establish their author platforms to begin buidling their networks.

  • How to Ace Your Query

    How to Ace Your Query

    Master the art of querying with tips on crafting a standout query letter, avoiding common pitfalls, and capturing an agent’s or editor’s attention fast.

  • Stand with the Banned: Thoughts on Book Banning Practices in the United States

    Stand with the Banned: Thoughts on Book Banning Practices in the United States

    Although the frequency has varied over the years, the United States has had a long-term relationship with book banning. In recent years especially, we have seen an astonishing increase in this practice. Approximately 3,362 recorded book-banning instances occurred from 2022 to 2023, and that number is rising.

  • OER, BOR, ALG, and Other College Cost-Saving Acronyms

    OER, BOR, ALG, and Other College Cost-Saving Acronyms

    Since 2013, Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), a University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) initiative, has saved more than 1.1 million USG students over 143 million dollars by funding and advocating Open Education Resources (OER) through grants and partnerships with eCore, eMajor, and the University of North Georgia…

  • How to Skip Textbook Costs Without Falling Behind

    How to Skip Textbook Costs Without Falling Behind

    The fall semester is upon us, and college students are making their annual pilgrimage back to the classroom. There’s a certain jittery excitement that accompanies the beginning of a new semester–a chance to start over, begin again with a clean slate. Possibilities are endless for students looking out over the…

  • Keep UP: UNG Press and Affordable Learning Georgia Save Students Millions in Textbook Costs

    The partnership between UNG Press and Affordable Learning Georgia has saved Georgia students millions with no-cost textbooks and OER.