Extra! Q&A: Blackwell Publishing’s Alan Bacon ... on Blackwell’s New Journal Digitization Project
Extra!: What was involved in the vendor-selection process? What specifically were you looking for and what about Techbooks made for a good fit?
Bacon: We moved to offshore typesetting vendors in 2002 of whom Techbooks was one. ... At the time, backfile digitization was very much an ad hoc thing and we were using one or two different [companies] who offered those sorts of services. I think [we chose them] because the typsetting relationship with Techbooks proved to be so good and, technically, they’re probably in the top corridor of those sorts of suppliers. When they came to us and said “We can also do data conversion and digitization work,” we thought we’d give them more work ... and we’ve stuck with them ever since. ... We selected them as the partner because they’re the ones who know our business best.
- Companies:
- TechBooks