Vintage Books Uses ‘New Approach’ to Crashing a Book Project
But the most pressing issue facing Vintage all along, says Miller, was the question, “When are we going to get this report?” The publisher had needed to clear time with its printers, “so they could clear all their decks and print [exclusively] for us.”
The ISG set a deadline to have all copy to Miller by Friday, Dec. 1 and—much to Miller’s relief—it did just that. The report came in at about noon, but had its problems. “It was longer than we expected, there were more headers than we expected, there were some [extra] text boxes,” recalls Miller. “They had to re-jigger the design before sending the whole thing off to type-setting at about 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. that afternoon.”
Matt Steinmetz is the publisher and brand director of Publishing Executive.