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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager The staff at Westchester’s locations around the world are continuing to work remotely for their health and safety as well as that of ...
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Walter Henderson, Senior Supervising Editor, ELT This blog highlights the importance of academic writing for English Language Learners (ELLs) in Asia and offers a few solutions for those who are ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer University Presses have been key partners of Westchester Publishing Services for decades, and were a primary impetus for us to launch our Domestic Full ...
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Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager We are only four months into the year, but it's clear that 2020 will be profoundly transformative. The coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching impacts ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer We are all learning to adapt to a new, temporary normal during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  In publishing, specific issues arise for publishers that ...
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by Walter Henderson, Jr., Senior Supervising Editor of ELT What is CLIL? As outlined in this article from the British Council, CLIL [klɪl] is a tongue-twisting acronym that stands for Content ...
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by Tim Davies, Managing Director, Westchester Education Services UK I was excited to receive a copy of Illuminate Publishing’s ‘GCSE Statistics’ textbook this week. Westchester Education Services partnered with award-winning ...
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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager In the summer months, the pace typically slows down, allowing an opportunity to relax and enjoy the longer, warmer days summertime offers up ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I saw this post in my Google News feed a week or so ago, and put it aside to consider. CNBC reported on ...
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Tim Davies, Westchester UK's Managing Director is looking forward to attending the IPG Autumn Conference that takes place on Tuesday, 17th September, and chatting with independent publishers about their editorial ...
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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager When you select a vendor to handle typesetting services for your projects, you need to have a strong degree of confidence that the ...
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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager We’re halfway through our 50th year in business, and Westchester Publishing Services has continued to be very productive in several areas! Here are ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Westchester is continually reviewing feedback regarding our Client Portal. The Client Portal, our no-cost online system for project management, is currently in formal ...
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LaTeX is one of the most powerful typesetting platforms for publishers of mathematics, economics, and other content requiring the presentation of equations. But, if you’re a publisher of that type ...
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Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager In what has become an enjoyable tradition here at Westchester, I’ve asked my colleagues to tell about a book that they’re looking ...
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Wow! We’re all really excited at Westchester Publishing Services about the news we just received that The Stationers’ Company, London’s guild for the publishing and media industries, has shortlisted Westchester’s ...
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This past Friday, the W3C announced the final specification for EPUB 3.2 files. What does this mean for you? Well, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) acts as the industry ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I joined Wolters Kluwer’s Aspen Publishing imprint in 2001 as a sales rep. At the time, law books (and they were almost solely ...
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There’s an often overlooked page on Westchester’s website called “Pre-Edit Services.” Pre-Edit services are not an in-demand service that publishers often shop for, the way they do copyediting, design, typesetting, ...
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We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Walter Henderson Jr. to our already top-flight editorial content development team at Westchester K-12 Publishing Services. Joining Anne Riccio, Supervising Editor ...
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Celeste Bilyard, Production Manager, Journal ServicesWho’s minding your journals at your current vendor? Do they play a proactive role to ensure editorial and production requirements are being handled as efficiently ...
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Terry Colosimo, Director of OperationsIn a previous blog post, you learned about the approach to Customer Service that Director of Operations, Terry Colosimo and her team bring to each project ...
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April 5, 2019 CONTINUING A PARTNERSHIP OF MORE THAN A QUARTER-CENTURY From Westchester Publishing Services’ beginnings as a typesetting company exactly fifty years ago, trade publishers have relied on the ...
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April 3, 2019 Tim Davies, Managing Director Tim Davies was appointed Managing Director of our new, UK operation in 2018. Tim is well-known in the British publishing industry, with a ...
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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Many year in review pieces come out in December, which means anything that happens the last few weeks of the year runs the ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer As announced last summer, Westchester Publishing Services partnered with Dropbox to use its Dropbox API as part of the architecture of our Client Portal ...
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Keeping costs in check on publication projects may mean you need to rely on outside editorial and production resources. If you decide to work with a production facility that is ...
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by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services Anne Riccio (Sr. Supervising Editor, ELA and Humanities) and I recently attended the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) ...
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compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager I'm not quite sure how a year has elapsed since I put together the 2017 compilation of books that employees of Westchester ...
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Many vendors say that they can handle your editorial and production needs, but what do they actually mean? Who owns the process, and how are they ensuring quality and consistency ...
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Westchester has been a client of Dropbox for some time, and after conducting an in-depth analysis of the extent of their capabilities, we made the decision to partner with them at ...
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by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer  Late last month, I headed back across the Atlantic to visit with our growing customer base in the United Kingdom, as well as ...
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by Terry Colosimo, Director of Operations Before joining Westchester, I was a Production Manager at an academic publisher working with both printing and composition vendors. Though quality and cost were ...
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by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager  The 4th Annual Publishers WeeklyStar Watch event took place in New York City on September 12, 2018. Co-hosted by Publishers Weeklyand Frankfurt Buchmesse – ...
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by Anne Riccio, Senior Supervising Editor, ELA & Humanities I recently attended the ILA conference, which took place in Austin, TX. While attendance has been decreasing over the past few ...
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