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Book Proposal Submission Guidelines

The document is a book proposal form that outlines essential information required for submitting a book idea, including the proposed title, author details, competition analysis, and physical features of the book. It also addresses the pedagogical aspects, current status of the manuscript, and promotion suggestions. Additionally, it requests information on comparable existing books and their strengths in relation to the proposed work.

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Book Proposal Submission Guidelines

The document is a book proposal form that outlines essential information required for submitting a book idea, including the proposed title, author details, competition analysis, and physical features of the book. It also addresses the pedagogical aspects, current status of the manuscript, and promotion suggestions. Additionally, it requests information on comparable existing books and their strengths in relation to the proposed work.

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Book Proposal Form

INTRODUCTION

1. Proposed Title and Subtitle of the Book


2. Name and title of the author(s)/editor(s) with their work address (es), e-mail address (es) and
telephone number(s)?
3.
a. Is the book likely to be adopted as a compulsory purchase for the course? Provide the
names of the institutions where it can be recommended either as the main text or a
reference text?
b. If it is an advanced academic or a trade title, indicate the disciplines, institutions and
areas where it can be promoted?

THE COMPETITION

4. What are the most comparable existing books? Please name the author, title, publisher,
publication year, page count and price?

[Link] Title Author Publisher Publication Page Price


Year Count

5. How will your proposed book compare with these? Kindly list the strengths of your proposed
book compared with the competitors’ titles listed above, stating reasons that will attract
colleges/universities to prescribe your book in preference to the existing books?
6. Has the material been class-tested? If not, will it be? Book is based on class notes and these
class notes have been appreciated by the students and faculty.
7. Do you have any specific suggestion/s for effective promotion of the book?

PHYSICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES

8. How many pages will there be in the final book (estimated)?


9. Please share the Table of Contents (ToC) of the proposed book (preferably with A-level
headings).
10. Please estimate the number of each type of illustration in your book: line drawings, black and
white photographs, colour photographs, maps, etc.?
11. Please indicate which of the following pedagogical features your book will have and, where
appropriate, the number of each: worked examples, glossary, solutions to problems,
references/bibliography, case studies, etc.
12. Will your book have any kind of instructor’s manual, solutions manual, test bank of multiple-
choice questions, software, etc.?

CURRENT STATUS OF THE MANUSCRIPT

13. What date do you plan to deliver the first draft of the complete manuscript?
14. Please provide the names, addresses, and contact numbers of two or three possible reviewers.

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Signature `

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