SURE, YOU'VE BEEN PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS, you've focused on a fertile area of research; maybe you've even served as the Department Chair. Where do you go from here? Consider this: You already have half the skills needed to create your own publication program. You research, write drafts, rewrite, document, edit; think about it:

YOU'RE DOING HALF THE JOB ALREADY with projects that you've edited, revised, and researched, submitting papers to journals that may be not quite on target with regard to your specialty. Your own colleagues face the same problems you do. Now look again, this time imagining doing it yourself (and probably do a better job). The secret is that you're the ideal person to write grant proposals and secure funding. (For tips on grant-writing, visit the Grants Page.)

COLLEGE EDITIONS CAN DO THE OTHER HALF of the job, working with you to build a better book. We start with your MSS, work with you to develop a format that you approve, submit proofs at every stage so that we get it just right. I can tell you that every time we deliver boxes of books to our customers, there's an air of excitement and a real sense of accomplishment.

CAN WE DO eBOOKS? Of course. Subscribers and libraries are grappling with which format will be most useful in the coming years. Paper editions will continue; so will ebooks. Do you want to make information freely available, self-supporting, or as a profit center? Will ebooks be simply a website resource, or permanent? Check the eBooks page for details.