LEADING PUBLISHING SERVICES AND CONSULTING COMPANY INTRODUCES PRINT COMPOSITION SERVICES

Publishing Dimensions, a leading content conversion and publishing consultancy today announced a new service line: composition services for print and PDF publishing. This service utilizes a new approach to editing and page-makeup that uses XML from the very beginning and saves the publisher up to 25% in production costs.

New York (PRWEB) May 10, 2003 - Publishing Dimensions, a leading content conversion and publishing consultancy today announced a new service line: composition services for print and PDF publishing. This service utilizes a new approach to editing and page-makeup that uses XML from the very beginning and saves the publisher up to 25% in production costs. The process begins before an editor starts working with the manuscript -- providing the speed, low cost, and flexibility available only through the use of XML technology, yet allowing the editors who prefer it to continue to work on paper.

The service offers publishers a number of significant benefits in addition to substantial cost savings:
·   Reduced development time through simultaneous copyediting and indexing.
·   Editors and indexers can continue working on paper (if thats what theyre used to), or if they prefer to work electronically, they have that option as well.
·   Title content is immediately available for other uses (special editions, large print editions, excerpts, compilations, etc.) and other formats (eBooks, POD, web, etc.) without the need for detailed proofing and re-editing.
·   Galleys can be generated at any time during the process complete with up-to-date edits made in the central XML file.
·   Designs can be rapidly altered: to optimize appearance, book length or evaluate other design alternatives.
·   Enables the most rapid turn-around to meet critical deadlines at any stage in the process.
·   No extra charge for delivery of printed pages (up to 3 sets).
·   No extra charge for reasonable amount of EAs. (3 per 10 pages)
·   For the increasing number of publishers who are integrating cross-media publishing into their products, this service offers the ideal: print, web, eBook and any other format can be delivered as part of the print production process.
·   "It always puzzled us why composition houses werent able to provide eBooks at the same time as print editions or achieve the kind of economics we knew were possible. With this service were finally able to demonstrate how the promise of XML can be achieved in one of the key publishing processes -- moving a title from manuscript to print." said Ken Brooks, President of Publishing Dimensions. "We are actively using this process with several clients and the results really are outstanding. We were able to apply our technical skills and knowledge of the publishing industry to create an offering that bridges the digital and print world to the benefit of each."

About Publishing Dimensions:
Publishing Dimensions (http://www.pubdimensions.com), established in the Fall of 1999, handles content conversion for all sectors of the publishing community. Publishing Dimensions introduced XML into their workflow during the second quarter of 2002 and has seen remarkable improvements in their offering including turn around, format consistency and cost. In addition to conversion and distribution solutions, Publishing Dimensions offers a range of consulting services to the publishing industry.

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