Plain and Simple Press’s first e-book just went live at Amazon! The title is Slave Labor: The New Story of American Higher Education. A must-read for anyone who is enrolled or about to enroll in a college or university, for anyone who has children going to college, for legislators, for boards of regents, for graduate students who imagine an academic career awaits them, and for college administrators everywhere, Slave Labor explains the short- and long-term effects of replacing professors with part-timers and chronicles one adjunct’s semester in America’s largest community college district.

Required reading—and great fun—for anyone contemplating an academic career. If you’re not warned off, at least you’ll be warned.

—Beth Luey, author of Handbook For Academic Authors

 Admirably articulates the negative effect of adjunct hiring practices on students, faculty, and the quality of higher education.

 –Gloria Cuádraz, associate professor of American Studies, Arizona State University

Slave Labor is only the first of three e-books Plain & Simple Press plans to publish before the end of 2014. Coming up are a work of speculative fiction  — described by one reader as “future history” — and a diet book with a slew of recipes that are mouth-watering in spite of being good for you.

Watch this space!