Content Production

We offer end-to-end content production services from full-service project management to pre-editing, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, artwork services, etc.

Project Management

With the ever-evolving landscape of the publishing industry, effective project management ensures the successful execution of complex publishing projects, from manuscript to final product. This involves overseeing the entire process, coordinating various stakeholders, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality publications.

Our project managers, both onshore and offshore, have proven expertise and attention to detail that has contributed to the success of our client in today’s dynamic and competitive industry.

Here are some key aspects of full-service project management that our team performs

Defining Scope & Planning
Document project scope, services, and deliverables in collaboration with client and allocate necessary resources, such as editors, designers, typesetters, and proofreaders well in advance.
Scheduling
Establish a timeline that considers the dependencies between tasks, monitor progress regularly, address any delays promptly, and adjust schedules if needed.
Communication
Act as a central point of contact between the publishing teams: authors, editors, designers, and other stakeholders. Manage expectations and resolve conflicts, maintaining strong relationships with all involved parties.
Quality Assurance
Establish quality control processes from content to layout to print and digital deliveries compliance. Conduct regular reviews to ensure adherence to publisher guidelines and industry standards.
Budget and Risk Management
Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize their impact on the project schedule and cost without compromising quality.
Post-Project Evaluation and Contribution to Workflow Optimization
Gather feedback from stakeholders and identify areas for improvement to help refining processes leveraging technological solutions to enhance productivity.

Pre-editing

Pre-editing is an essential step in preparing any structured and unstructured content for publication. Our pre-editors engage with the content, understand its flow—which is a basic building block for any publication—and then prepare it for the next major steps, such as copyediting, online publication, and typesetting.

Organizing the content as per the required order, cleaning up unnecessary items such as double spaces and empty paragraphs, applying styles, ensuring active and correct cross-links, and performing rule-based mechanical edits are some of the key activities performed at this stage, which lays down the foundation for content publication on any platform in any medium.

Copyediting

An important step in the publishing cycle, copyediting ensures that the author’s message is clearly communicated to the readers—in the author’s voice. Many technological advancements have taken place over the years in the natural language processing space that we use in our daily work to predict errors in writing and to improve it. However, human eyes remain our best tool yet—their ability to find sense and clarity, or a lack thereof, is still unmatched. Moreover, only a skilled copyeditor can make the best use of the suggestions provided by any technological solution.

We have a team of experienced copyeditors, both onshore and offshore. Nothing describes the copyeditor’s role better than the following quote:

Typesetting

Typesetting is the stage where the content is given its esthetic look and feel from the perspective of a physical page that one can print and feel in one’s hands. We follow industry best practices to meet the diversified needs of simultaneous print and electronic publishing from early on in the content production cycle and maintain a single master source throughout the different production stages.

Our best-in-class typesetting setup (XML-first), automation tools, and comprehensive templates enable us to offer multiple-channel delivery such as print and web PDF, ePub, and XML, among others, for a range of tiers, from maximally automated standard layout pages to sophisticated ones with bespoke designs and complex content arrangement.

Proofreading

Once the content has been finalized, it is sent for proofreading. It is the final comprehensive check before the product is prepared for publishing. The objective remains the same—to ensure that the writer’s thoughts are clearly communicated to the readers with a reflection of the publisher’s brand value and identity. It involves checking the document for sense, style, and consistency in terms of both content and layout.

While the content is already supposed to be clean and set in order before it reaches the proofreading stage, minute errors such as typos, missing or extra words hindering the reader’s flow, and inconsistent word usage or design application are caught at this stag

Image Processing and Artworks

We have expertise to convert figures from any graphic and non-graphic applications to print- and web-ready image formats. This includes enhancement of colors, labeling, re-drawing, and proofing, among others.