Gene Therapy: From Book Proposal to Profit
As a project moves past acquisition, “ownership” of data input is taken over by authorized staff in each department, such as editorial, design and production (EDP). The press has about 36 employees, “and just about everybody in the building uses [the system]” to check on status or title information. An average of 150 new titles are published each year, and a backlist of about 3,000 titles can be tracked.
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.