Textbook Offer
Trying to make a difference
in a challenging economy.
To Students, Educators, and Parents,
My name is Terry H. Wesner, the owner of Bernard J. Klein Publishing. I have sponsored this free website http://www.TotallyFreeMath.com (AKA GetMath), where anyone can download my 3rd edition Elementary Algebra textbook with two accompanying ancillaries for free. I have never allowed ads. I don’t ask for donations, and I don’t keep any records of who visits my site.
If you enter free math textbook in a Google search, I am usually 2nd or 3rd out of 1.6 million listings, and for the most generic search term, free math, I am about 15th out of 13.3 million listings. To have achieved that high of a ranking, I must be doing something that students, educators, and parents all appreciate. I am currently in the process of bookmarking in PDF 10 more books to add to this site. You can currently visit http://www.TextbookMedia.com and use 10 of my textbooks for free. There are ads on that site, but also a lot of other subjects to choose from.
My company specializes in mathematics from arithmetic through precalculus, and our primary objective is to provide low or no-cost educational materials to students and educators. My textbooks were developed and produced by McGraw Hill and are 5-color hardbound textbooks with full ancillary packages developed to the highest industry standards
.I would like to offer to any school district my 5th Edition Algebra Textbooks, which I have just updated and copyrighted in 2009. The costs to the schools would be just two dollars over the cost of printing. The bottom line is that a textbook retailing for $125 and wholesaling for $95 would cost roughly $6.50 to $10.50. The end cost only varies by the number of books that are printed at one time.This is for a 704-page full-color hardbound textbook with an annotated instructor’s edition and a full text-specific ancillary package.
The $2.00 per book ancillary cost would be in addition to these values.
Most of the two dollars over the cost of printing allows me to also provide free copies of the text-specific ancillary materials on disc, from which administrators can make as many copies as needed for instructors, as well as students. The accompanying ancillaries include – instructor’s resource manuals, instructor’s solutions manuals, student’s solutions manuals, test item files, video lectures using problems directly from the book, and more.
Low-cost/free material is usually worth what you paid for it, and in education, poor materials equate to a lower success rate in the classroom. For that reason, I will provide a little more information about myself. This is a URL to a sample of over 250 teachers who actively participated in the development of the various editions of my textbooks. http://www.getmath.com/contributors.html
I hope that my offer generates some interest, and I am happy to provide any other information that you would like. There is a link above that will allow you to download a more detailed PDF of this offer that can either be printed and sent or emailed to administrators or organizations that might be interested in further exploring this unique offer.
Best regards, Terry H. Wesner
CEO Bernard J. Klein Publishing