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Successful publishing in today’s highly competitive market requires creative solutions for getting your product to market faster. Profitability can depend on delivering a high-quality product in less time and at lower costs than ever before. Achieving best-cost, flexible publishing services solutions without compromising quality requires committed, competent partners with an intrinsic understanding of your needs and the publishing industry as a whole – partners with sophisticated operations and a qualified resource base that can scale rapidly to meet your unique and changing requirements. Aptara is that business partner, providing the editorial services that help customers realize meaningful success. Our project management and editorial services teams have proven track records of managing the editorial/production process in the publisher’s best interest, including author liaison and rigorous attention to publication integrity. This approach has delivered continuous gains in quality, cost and cycle times for many of the world’s leading publishers – resulting in, on average, 70% lower production costs, 50% faster time-to-publish, accelerated readership growth, increased market share, and new revenue streams from the ability to quickly and easily repurpose their content. Our editorial services include: Project Management Aptara looks at every project as a partnership. We work hand-in-hand with customers to help them achieve cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and profitability. Our project management/editorial services team provides hands-on support from concept to completion in whatever capacity is required. Customers rely upon Aptara for complete and thorough management of their projects. At Aptara, our editorial and production managers are obsessive about guiding projects to success, from start to finish. In addition to fail-safe scheduling and tracking, our project management services include:
Aptara’s production staff has extensive experience working with a wide range of composition deliverables, including books, journals, reference works, magazines, directories, and catalogs. We are experts in LaTeX, QuarkXPress, InDesign, 3B2, and FrameMaker. We provide a front-end XML workflow (XMLPublish) that provides simultaneous delivery of high-quality content in both print and digital formats. Illustration rendering, scanning, and correction in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, DeltaGraph, and other graphic applications are tightly integrated with our composition workflows. Editing From guiding authors and contributors through the writing and revision process, to in-depth copy editing services to ensure stylistic consistency, Aptara’s editorial services include copy editing by a team of professionals with extensive experience in scientific, technical, medical, social sciences, and humanities subject matters. Aptara copy editors can follow a publisher’s rigorous house style sheet, or apply good copy editing judgment in the absence of a style sheet to achieve stylistic consistency and accuracy throughout a publication. Proofreading Details matter when it comes to producing high quality published material. Aptara’s team of experts offers meticulous proofreading as part of our editorial services, to ensure the highest standards of accuracy in your publication. Our proofreaders scrutinize and rectify inconsistencies found in the processed original text such as spelling errors, incorrect end-of-line hyphenations, and aesthetic or layout considerations such as hyphenation stacking, widows and orphans, and spread balancing. We verify page proofs to your design spec or style sheet, ensure consistency in typefaces in the document, and correct hierarchies of headings and running heads. Artwork and Graphic Design The inclusion of complementary images or design can impact the success of a publishing project. As a part of our editorial services, Aptara provides artwork and graphic design services that include the management of images supplied by the author to full creative services that include concept, design, and/or redrawing of author-supplied artwork. We work with a full range of graphic design software, such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, MacroMedia, Corel Draw, Aldus Freehand, Mathematica, and DeltaGraph, to create the right artwork for the publication, based on its audience. Final deliverables are provided in the client-specified format. |
