a consortium of experienced freelance publishing professionals who offer their skills to computer companies and computer book publishers to produce trade books, textbooks, and computer documentation. Our experience covers all facets of computer book production: editing, design, layout, proofreading, indexing, and language localization. We may be hired to perform all facets of a publishing project, or just the services the client needs.
Our clients are nationally recognized book publishers and computer companies who hire us when their in-house staff are too busy on other projects, when our production experience is needed, or when we can produce the job more quickly or inexpensively.
While it is a sole proprietorship registered in California, we describe ourselves as a consortium because we comprise an experienced team of freelance professionals who work from our own offices in close coordination to produce quality publications. Our core group of professionals have each worked for more than a decade in the computer publishing field and produced scores of books; collectively we’ve produced hundreds of books amounting to tens of thousands of pages.
We work for a national clientele with our core staff located in the San Francisco Bay Area where we take full advantage of San Francisco’s publishing professionals and the Silicon Valley’s technical experts. Additional staff is drawn from around the country, and abroad, as needed.
Our freelancers are skilled in the best software and hardware tools of the trade, and unlike businesses facing the costs and burdens of upgrading thousands of computer stations, our freelancers can quickly adopt the latest stable release of a desktop publishing or graphics program and run it on a state-of-the art machine.
We do away with office overhead, fixed salaries, commuting downtime, and narrow nine-to-five workdays by distributing the job to freelancers working longer hours more efficiently from their own offices. However, the client always has a single contact person for the job, the project manager. The project manager coordinates the work of team members, overseeing its quality and making sure the project schedule is maintained. Any part of a job is within a day’s delivery to the client or another team member via overnight messenger, and increasingly the virtual job moves from stage to stage by email and fax within just minutes.
Our goal is to produce a quality job at a reasonable cost while achieving the tight deadlines typical in the computer publishing field. We are pleasant to work with, we are professional, and we take pride in our work.
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