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Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

EP265 Why I’m pulling some of my books out of print & rewriting "Awakened"

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Teachers, Courses, Education, Teaching

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a little insider knowledge into the publishing world and how I make decisions to ensure all 5 of my books are current and relevant...

I’m planning to release a second edition of Awakened: Change Your Mindset to Transform Your Teaching in November 2022, and I wanted to give you an idea of what will be different and why.

From a technical standpoint, the second edition of a book counts as a brand new book: it has a new ISBN number, new links and listings in online retailers, etc.

As a general principle in publishing, a book should only be released as a second edition if readers who already own the first edition would benefit from owning the second. In other words, it needs to be different enough from the first edition — to have enough updated content, new ideas, and so on — to qualify as a separate book. This is the first time I’ve ever attempted a second edition of a book and it’s been a really enjoyable process, as you’ll hear.

I’m also creating an audiobook version which I’m very excited about — there wasn’t one for the first edition. I think the book really lends itself well to that format, and of course I’m reading it myself, because so many of you are used to my voice from the podcast and it would feel weird to hear someone else reading it!

I wanted to let you hear an excerpt from the audiobook version of the Awakened second edition that talks about choices I’ve made around updating books and removing books from print. Listen in to hear what’s changed and why.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 265 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

0:07.4

I'm your host, Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of

0:11.5

educators and get you informed and energized for the week ahead.

0:16.2

Today, I'm talking about why I'm pulling some of my books out of print and redoing

0:21.2

my book Awakent.

0:23.2

Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy to read, easy to share a version of this podcast

0:28.6

episode.

0:30.6

I first started the podcast back in 2015, and nearly 300 episodes later, I'm proud to

0:36.5

say there is a wealth of helpful information available to you.

0:40.7

But you don't have time to listen to 300 episodes.

0:44.0

How do you know you didn't miss out on something great a while back?

0:47.2

What if there's something you need to hear now that I haven't talked about in a while?

0:51.5

Enter the new Truth for Teachers playlist.

0:54.7

I've carefully curated the episodes I'm most proud of, and that I think will help you

0:59.0

the most from our seven years of podcasting.

1:02.6

Choose from the greatest hits playlist, the encouragement playlist, the productivity

1:07.4

playlist, and the student engagement playlist.

1:11.4

Just go to truthforteachers.com, forward slash playlist, and enter your email address

1:16.7

to receive the one that you want.

1:18.6

I'll send you a PDF with a description of each episode, a link to its blog post and transcript,

1:24.6

and a link to the MP3 file for listening.

1:27.4

It also shares some special bonuses and other related resources that I think you might

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