Online Publishing Turns Students, Teachers into Authors
Aspiring young writers can start their publishing careers online through Weekly Reader Press, a Web-based publishing site from Weekly Reader Corp. and iUniverse.
To publish their great American novels, students, with their teacher's help, can logon to the Weekly Reader Press Web site or go directly to the cobranded site at www.iuniverse.com/weeklyreader/ and follow the directions. The site also has a separate publishing category for teachers, which allows them to publish their own works separately from the classroom. Weekly Reader Press enables students and teachers to order high-quality paperback copies of their work with a four-color custom cover in just four weeks, with a minimum of 25 books required for printing. Weekly Reader Corp., Stamford, CT, (203) 705-3500,www.weeklyreader.com.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2002 issue of THE Journal.