Editorial Services - White Paper

Executive Summary

Faced with rising costs and stiffer competition, commercial publishers are constantly looking for new ways to reduce costs, while continuing to create new and compelling content. To meet this challenge, many publishers are outsourcing selected editorial functions, such as copy editing, indexing and abstracting and content creation to third party providers.

Publishers that have learned how to outsource successfully have found that contracting out editorial services enables them to dramatically lower their costs and focus their in-house resources on the core business of developing content that is directly relevant to their audiences.

But there’s more to outsourcing than simply shipping publications and finished manuscripts to a third party provider. Many firms are not prepared to do this effectively, nor are they sure how to generate and manage value through an outsourcing relationship. In a recent Innodata Isogen survey, nearly half of the respondents said they were reluctant to outsource editorial tasks, primarily because they were concerned about quality...