The Editors - Services

Outsourcing of design, editorial, and production services offers for many publishers an avenue to complement their staffs’ capacities when extraordinary demand is placed upon them by unanticipated publishing opportunities. Some publishers may wish to outsource to increase their current list and profit potential without incurring long-term overhead.

We offer the “cafeteria plan.” You can select as many or as few of our services as you need to get the job done. If you wish to outsource several titles in a given time period, we will create a project management plan to meet your special requirements.

The services offered by The Editors International include:

Project Planning and Management
The Editors serves small publishers who may publish only two or three key books each year, as well as large publishers who may produce 50 to 300 titles a year. Regardless of the size of the company, a The Editors project manager (PM) will oversee, implement, and coordinate the design, editorial, and production processes for your manuscripts.

Based on the publisher’s input for the book, the project manager will create a cost analysis and a complete schedule. If both are approved, the plan is implemented. The project manager will coordinate the work of all of the operatives. With weekly project status reports, the PM tracks the schedule and keeps the publisher informed at all stages. The project manager will carefully select a designer and editor with appropriate backgrounds to work on each manuscript. The PM instructs the author as to general responsibilities and schedule requirements. Because typesetting alterations are generally very expensive, the PM emphasizes to the author the importance of carefully reviewing the copyedited manuscript and making all changes at this stage.

This approach has consistently minimized the cost of alterations on books which we manage. The project manager is available to the author and the publisher from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each weekday.