TAA Textbook & Academic Authors Association
Join TAA Through the Molloy University Institutional Membership: https://taaa.memberclicks.net/join
Molloy University has purchased annual memberships for its faculty through TAA's Institutional Membership Program. You receive a one-year membership in TAA at no cost to you!
What You'll Receive as a TAA Member:
Professional Development
- Get expert advice and insight from more than 250+ on demand presentations.
- Get up-to-date information on timely topics and participate in live Q&A with live webinars.
- Browse our growing library of downloadable templates, worksheets, checklists and samples gathered from experienced textbook and academic authors and industry professionals to assist you with your own writing.
- Download more than a dozen eBooks on writing and publishing, social media for academics, grant writing, and more.
- Sign up to receive a one-hour editing or coaching session from one of our professional editor or coach partners.
- View the results of TAA’s 2022 Textbook Contracts & Royalties Survey, aimed at published textbook authors with the goal of providing a look into the range of royalties and contract options offered for print and digital textbooks.
- Stay connected to the textbook and academic authoring industry, and gain inspiration and insight from articles and member profiles with the TAA Blog, Abstract and TAA's member newsletter, The Academic Author.
- Learn and network with other textbook and academic authors at the TAA annual conference, on TAA's social media channels and its an Online Bulletin Board, where you can post messages seeking coauthors or mentors, offering publishing opportunities and more.
Grants & Discounts
- Offset your out-of-pocket expenses with publication grants or maximize your royalty potential with a textbook contract review grant.
- Browse a list of academic coaches, editors, consultants, intellectual property attorneys, indexers, accountants and tax advisors, and more, offering discounted rates exclusively to TAA members in TAA's Professional Directory.
- Take advantage of special offers from TAA Industry Professional Members, including discounts, downloads, white papers, and more.
Advocacy
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources
View materials TAA's DEI Committee has developed, or information about fellow TAA members' experience and advice, regarding how you can apply DEI principles to your own writing, and steps you can take to improve DEI for your own and/or fellow authors' writing projects.
Read the TAA Code of Ethics and TAA's Position Statement on the Academic Value of Textbooks
