Who We Are

We are Editors who understand both sides of the classroom (‘cause we’ve been there)—and it’s no accident that there are more of us, working on fewer books, than at any other publisher. We are authors who love teaching and research, and who value the intense collaboration behind a Bedford/St. Martin’s product. We are sales people with relationships, not accounts; and we get that every good relationship means asking the right questions and listening to the answers. We are developers, designers, and marketers who put usability, service, and support at the top of our to-do lists.

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What We Do

No matter what the details of each day-to-day job, from bottom to top, we believe that a good teacher, class, and text has the power to change the world—and we’re in the business of helping that happen. We make tools for today’s (and tomorrow’s) classrooms; now, more than ever, teachers and students need real choices around content, delivery, and price. We offer a value option for every kind of book we publish. Our free resources for students and teachers represent the biggest and best collections around. And we’re on our way to offering as many digital choices as we do print—with e-books, online course spaces, and e-libraries. (And if you still want a book? We promise it’s worth the paper it’s printed on.) Today we all face a different economic and educational landscape than we did a decade ago; we know we need to adapt to meet them.

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How We Work

When you go to the big conferences for our disciplines, you’ll see a lot of us—because the most important part of development and market research doesn’t happen in the home office. We study where our disciplines are and how they’re changing. We talk to teachers and students on campus and in classrooms. We draft, revise, review, and rethink. Finally? We take what we think we’ve figured out—and test it in the classroom. (you know how when you’re close to something you can’t see it clearly any more? Talking to people keeps us humble about what works—and busy as we make things better. And because we’re small? We can, and do, change course as we learn.

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