Timeline for Is it worth it to write a book with my advisor instead of focusing on journal/conference publications?
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| Apr 10, 2016 at 16:49 | answer | added | Ébe Isaac | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Regarding money, I'll state it even more strongly. On rare occasions, someone makes a lot of money from an exceptionally widely-used textbook (one with many sales to huge classes) or a book that crosses over to a general audience. Otherwise it's pretty much guaranteed that you won't make a lot of money. If you computed your effective hourly wage for the time you spent writing the book, you'd probably be embarrassed to tell your relatives. | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 15:27 | answer | added | Nikey Mike | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 12:24 | answer | added | The Guy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @user4050 You generally don't make a lot of money out of an academic book. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 4:14 | comment | added | JeffE | What do you mean, in place of? | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | Herman Toothrot | if you want to make a lot of money write a book. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 11:12 | comment | added | optimal control | In my field (economics), even very known economists are writing first papers and publish in top journals. Once publishing, they are writing books based on these papers, with modifying some parts of them. An example could be a book entitled "Economic Growth" by Robert Barro and Xavier Sala-i Martin where some substantial content of some chapters are already published as paper in top journals. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 10:47 | answer | added | Matthew Perryman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 8:54 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | @user37208 I wouldn't write physics books after tenure either, because I doubt they would be read (at least in Physics). | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 4:34 | comment | added | kmshannon | Probably stick with the papers. If and when you look for a research tenure track position, I assume it would make you a stronger applicant to show a history of research and adding to the field in novel ways vs. coauthoring a book. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 21:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/703337653484318720 | ||
| Feb 26, 2016 at 9:09 | comment | added | Davidmh | In which field are you? | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 8:54 | comment | added | daaxix | A data point is that my colleague wrote a book with our advisor prior to completing his PhD. It certainly slowed down some publications, but now he can put it on his CV. I think in his case, it was a wash, he still has good papers, just not as many as if he hadn't written the book. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 5:12 | comment | added | user37208 | The standard advice in STEMcademia is never write books until tenure, but this is heavily field-dependent. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 4:39 | history | asked | anon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |