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On Wednesday, May 21, Westchester Publishing Services sponsored the IPG Summer Summit virtual event. The day featured several sessions covering tariffs, metadata, marketing, and accessibility. A full day, indeed! Westchester’s ...

Observations from the London Book Fair 2025 Authors and AI were ruling the world at this year’s London Book Fair. Westchester assembled members of our team from our US, UK, ...

by Tim Davies, CEO Westchester Group UK The Westchester Publishing Services team was excited to attend London Book Fair this year. Our booth was located on one of the two ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Reader note: As of March 2024, the European Accessibility Act is slated to become effective in June, 2025. While there is speculation about ...

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by Julie Willis, Editorial Director and Systems Lead Accessibility in publishing is rapidly becoming a focus for publishing professionals. Particularly for those operating in Europe, where the European Accessibility Act will become ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial Director & Business Development Lead On the 18th and 19th of April 2023, Westchester Publishing Services UK were proud to exhibit at the IPG Spring Conference, ...

By Emma Hudson, Content and Services Manager, Westchester Education UK & International Making sure your content is accessible is more important than ever, especially as all content providers will be ...

Following the announcement of her appointment as Managing Director of Westchester Education UK & International earlier this year, we caught up with Rebecca Durose-Croft about her journey so far and ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial Director & Systems Lead As a ‘Supplier Member’ of the Independent Publishers Guild for many years, we were eager to attend the IPG Spring Conference on ...

by Tom Storr, Project Editor, Westchester Education UK & International We were delighted to attend  The British Book Awards 2022 – also known as the Nibbies – last month to celebrate ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial Director & Business Development Lead IPG awards 2022 – Oxo Tower Restaurant, London – 27th April 2022 Even as we queued for the lifts to take ...

Amazon has announced that effective June 28, when uploading ePub content for new books or updates to previously published content on their platform, mobi files will no longer be supported ...

Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager The first three months of 2021 have given us a sense of increased optimism, and we hope the same is true for ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer As we reach the anniversary of the beginning of the Pandemic “Lockdown” back in March 2020, two Washington Post articles caught my attention ...

Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Words are the primary means by which our clients communicate with their customers, so we are always looking at various media that we can ...

As 2020 comes to a close, and we all look forward to the news of a pandemic vaccine with hope and relief, the team at Westchester Publishing Services is grateful ...

by Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer Last month, Westchester Education Services and Westchester Education Services UK, Ltd attended The Stationers’ Company’s annual Innovation Excellence Awards. The Stationers’ ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I hope the Summer is going well for you and your team, all things considered. Things have been very busy at US employee-owned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...