34 Cost-Cutting and Time-Saving Production Tips
Executives from Oxford University Press, Orange Frazer Press, Harlequin, Stackpole and more share their tried-and-true tactics for saving money and time during the book-production cycle.
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2. Start at the beginning.
At Pearson, where Weinstein worked before joining OUP, speed and efficiency were achieved by utilizing templates at the beginning of the process. “Authors were writing in templates, which enabled us to use their codes … and enabled faster page makeup,” he says.
3. But keep the end use in mind.
“[Print-on-demand] comes into play at Oxford,” says Weinstein, who stresses to his staff that their job is all about creating files that can be repurposed with ease, a way of thinking dictated by market necessities. “We are not creating a print product, we are creating files that can be used to create a 3,000-copy print run or held for POD or shifted to Web sites. It’s content creation.
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