1. Book Production:
Paper and Beyond
Society for Scholarly Publishing
Camille Carter (ccarter@wiley.com)
Director, Book Production and
Manufacturing, STM Division
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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2. About
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
n Founded in 1807
n Headquarters in Hoboken, NJ
n Offices in Canada, the United
Kingdom, Germany, Singapore,
Australia
n Global revenues of $923 million in
fiscal year 2004
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3. Well-Known Wiley
Brands
n For Dummies
n Wiley InterScience
n Betty Crocker
n Ernst & Young/JK Lasser tax guides
n Cliffs Notes
n Frommer’s travel guides
n Webster’s New World Dictionary
n Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical
Technology
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4. About Wiley’s STM
Division
n Print and online journals, books,
major reference works, databases.
n Subject areas include: Life and
physical sciences, chemistry,
statistics and mathematics,
electrical and electronics
engineering, medical with an
emphasis on cancer medicine
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5. What Does a Manuscript
Look Like These Days?
n Stack of paper
n CD ROM
n Email attachment
n File on an FTP site
n File on an electronic manuscript
submission system
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6. Electronic Manuscript
Submission
n Web-based system
n In use by Wiley STM Journals
n Being tested on STM Major
Reference Works
n STM Books will be next!
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7. Manuscript Evaluation
n Is it complete?
n Are there files suitable for
electronic copy editing?
n Will the final product be print, or
electronic, or both?
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8. Castoff and Estimate
n Copy of manuscript and/or files
sent to one or more compositors
n Will there be additional coding (full-
text XML, XML headers, special
tagging)?
n How big is it?
n How much will it cost?
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9. Copy Editing
n Paper and pencil
n Electronic editing using Word
templates
n Author may or may not review
copy editor’s work.
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11. Typesetting and
Proofing
n Text goes straight to made-up page
proofs.
n Author reviews proofs either on paper or
as a PDF.
n Freelance proofreaders are used very
rarely.
n Author or freelance indexer prepares
index manuscript once page numbers
are final.
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12. Final Product from the
Compositor
n Press-ready PDF files with paper
copy as confirmation
n Wiley Archive-ready files for
conversion to Wiley InterScience
Online Book format and eBook
format
n Full-text XML files for online
product
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13. If We Follow the Paper
Trail…
n Printer makes proofs from PDF
files.
n When proofs are approved, printer
makes either film or plates.
n Bound books arrive at the
warehouse.
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14. How Long Did It Take?
n Manuscript assessment and copy
editing: 4-6 weeks
n Author review of manscript: 4 weeks
n Typesetting: 4-6 weeks
n Author review of proofs: 4 weeks
n Final corrections and indexing: 2-4
weeks
n Manufacturing and shipping: 6 weeks
n Total time: 6-7.5 months
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15. If We Follow the
Electronic Trail…
n Press-ready PDFs are down-
sampled and sent to a vendor for
conversion to eBook format.
n eBook files are QA’d and
distributed to Wiley.com,
Amazon.com, netLibrary, etc.
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16. …Just a Little Farther
n The same PDFs are sent to another
vendor for addition of XML chapter
headers.
n The vendor delivers the files to an
internal Wiley QA system.
n Files are checked, approved, and sent to
another system that publishes them in
Wiley InterScience as Online Books
n Time frame: 2-6 weeks from the time
files are ordered from the compositor
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17. More About Wiley’s
Internal QA System for
Online Books
n Can be used for checking ebooks
and obooks
n User logs and certain
administrators have access to files
n Primary owner gets an automated
email when the vendor delivers the
files to the system
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18. How the QA Works
n Production Editor (PE) can sort
titles in various ways—view all,
view new, view approved
n When a title is selected, the PE
goes to a main title screen
n From there the PE clicks through a
series of links to approve both PDF
and XML for each chapter, front
matter, and back matter
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20. When the QA Reveals A
Problem
n Potential problems include a PDF
that wasn’t saved correctly or an
XML tag that’s incorrect.
n The PE rejects that particular file
n The system lets the PE fix it if
possible, or creates an automated
“request for correction” email that
goes back to the vendor
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21. QA is A-OK!
n PE clicks links to approve book-
level metadata and then clicks a
link to “publish” the obook to a
staging area
n PE spot-checks title in staging area
to be sure files are rendering
correctly
n Obook is published to the live
Wiley InterScience site
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27. Questions?
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28. Thank you!
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