12 Profitable Book-Production Tips for Publishers and Printers
Vice President Peter Tobin shares his tips for optimizing workflow management:
1. Take advantage of one-stop shopping. Whenever possible, cut a single purchase order to a single vendor to deliver all the manufacturing services you need every step along the way. This is especially true, for example, for placement of component orders—covers, jackets, etc.—for which you will pay only for the quantity delivered on bound books.
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.