I have written a book titled: How to Read Advanced Mathematics. How do I get this book published?

Question

When most people read a theorem and its proof, they usually check every step of the proof without taking advantage of many other important and useful principles that can be learned when reading proofs. Similar issues occur when people learn algorithms, definitions, mathematical methods, formulas, etc. I have addressed these issues and many more in my book. How do I get it published?

Answer 1

Contact publishers!

Author/agent submission Publishers spend a significant proportion of their time buying or commissioning content. The door is open for authors to submit material for consideration. The majority of unsolicited submissions come from previously unpublished authors. Such manuscripts must go through the slush pile, in which acquisitions editors sift through to identify manuscripts of sufficient quality or revenue potential to be referred to the editorial staff. Authors who are represented by a literary agent are more likely to succeed with major publishers. Publishers thrive only when they are able to produce and sell books that match the needs of the target readers.
Once a work is accepted, the commissioning editors negotiate the purchase of intellectual property rights and agree on royalty rates.

Having agreed on the scope of the publication and the formats, the parties must then agree royalty rates, i.e. the percentage of the gross retail price that will be paid to the author. This is a difficult risk management exercise because the publisher must estimate the potential sales in each market and balance projected revenue against production costs.
Once the immediate commercial decisions are taken and the technical legal issues resolved, the author may be asked to improve the quality of the work through rewrite(s) or the in-house staff will edit the work. Almost all publishers operate a house style, and staff will copy edit to ensure that the work matches the style and grammatical requirements of each market.
When a final text is agreed, the next phases are design. This may include artwork being commissioned or confirmation of layout. This process prepares the work for printing through processes such as typesetting, dust jacket composition, specification of paper quality, binding method and casing, and proofreading. The activities of typesetting, page layout, the production of negatives, plates from the negatives and, for hardbacks, the preparation of brasses for the spine legend and imprint are now all computerised.

Simply, you must contact publishers to get your books published!

Answer 2

I have written a calculus book "The Calculus: An Opinion"

I sent it to publishers and agents, a non-trivial chore. The most encouraging answer I got was from the AMS. They said they liked it but that "it was a marketing challenge we are not prepared to undertake at this time".

I understood their point. Publishing companies make their money by selling books for the massive classes; under graduate calculus, remedial algebra, etc.

I taught my first class of calculus as a TA in 1957. At that school there was only one calculus sequence and everybody took it; there was no algebra or trig, it was assumed to be known. I taught out of the first edition of Thomas which was a pretty good book. There were only a hand full of choices for a text. Nobody was making a lot of money on mathematics books. I think Thomas was the the first guy to become a millionaire because he wrote calculus book.

The evolution of the mathematics text, post Sputnik, if kind of interesting in a morbid sort of way.

You seem to have a good idea for a student who wants to get some facility with mathematics. I don't know how big your audience will be. I suppose publishers know about things like that.

I finally put my calculus book on line. I was more interested in making it available than making money. Egotisticly, I think it is a good book and gives the reader insights into mathematics, particularly calculus, that they won't find elsewhere.

I have a mathematics blog at mathematicsteacher.org
and there you will find a link to my calculus book as well as several facinating (the set of people who like my stuff isn't empty, I am in it) articles.

Answer 3

Publish on-line:
"Your Book Title, a Free On-line E-book"

That's a good page name and title for search engines.
If you publish in wood/paper format, it might disappear in the future if it is not on-line. The days of paper-publishing appear to be ending.

Someone might ask you to consult for a fee as a result of reading your book.

Put in a copyright, so no one can legally clone it.

Here is an example: www.youvan.com

Answer 4

You should look for books with titles like "how to get your book published"