Book Producers Help Publishers Do More
Book producers provide original ideas. Packaged books can expand a publisher’s list with titles they can’t get anywhere else. The many hundreds of packaged books that have hit the shelves span the entire spectrum of publishing categories—art, medicine, cooking, history, parenting, gardening, sports, popular culture, self-help, business, and more. They also run the gamut of publishing markets, including trade, mass market, educational, juvenile, professional, and reference.

Book producers are expert at labor-intensive projects. As diverse in subject matter as packaged books are, they typically have one thing in common: Packaged books are complicated projects. Complicated can mean many things, depending on the project. Often it means the project involves working closely with an outside organization, like a magazine or a medical school, to shape a book on which the organization can agree to put its name.

Sometimes complicated means coordinating the work of multiple authors, researchers, and experts, or supervising the creation of original art or photography. Sometimes it means developing a series with licensed or original characters, or executing a highly elaborate design, or even incorporating non-print materials, such as CDs, juggling balls, or other merchandise.

Almost always, however, complicated means that the project calls for concentrated, labor-intensive activity. And this makes most packaged books the kinds of projects that literary agents cannot offer to publishers and that publishers themselves generally cannot execute in-house. 

Book producers are equipped to devote the time, energy, and focused attention necessary to bring these projects to fruition—delivering a polished manuscript, printer-ready files, or even finished books. Drawing on the most sophisticated design and production technologies, book producers can handle every stage of the publishing process and be counted upon to deliver a product on schedule with the highest level of professionalism.