We help publishers and content providers of all types of publications.

Learn more below about the markets we serve:

– Trade Publishers
– Academic and Scholarly Books, including University Presses
– Professional Publishers including Legal Publishers
– Journal Publishers
– Think Tanks and Policy Groups
– Trade Associations

Why do these types of publishers and content providers look to Westchester Publishing Services for help? US employee-owned Westchester is considered a leader in the publishing services industry, with over a half century of quality support for a variety of more than 500 publishers and content providers.

This podcast from our friends at the UK organization IPG explains how outsourcing editorial and composition services to a vendor helps publishers to grow their business.

Trade Publishers

Since our founding in the late 1960s, trade publishers have been a key market for Westchester. For many trade publishers, we provide Domestic and India Direct Composition offerings as their core service with us, taking manuscripts from Word files through to final printer, POD, and ePub files. Increasingly, trade publishers are asking us to also get involved with alt text writing, copyediting, and even developmental editing on their titles. We have talented editors with specific skills for trade titles here in the States who can help with any of these tasks, as well as offshore project managers and design resources who can extend our capabilities providing affordable options for our clients.

Trade publisher clients we handle editorial tasks for include:
– Grove Atlantic
– Sourcebooks
– Crooked Lane
– Harvard Business Publishing
– Nacelle Books
– and more

“Westchester has excellent copyeditors who catch things that we’ve seen others miss in the past. No matter how complex the project has been, Mona’s staff capably has handled everything we have sent their way. The level of communications we receive from the entire Westchester team, along with the status updates about our projects are very helpful. Whether your project is a one-off or part of a larger list, they’ll take care of you.” – Matt Martz, Publisher, Crooked Lane Books & Alcove Press

Academic and Scholarly Books

Westchester’s editorial operation was founded over 25 years ago to specifically address the needs of university presses and other publishers of academic and scholarly publications. We have grown this operation to support over 100 academic publishers using production editorial staff in the US, UK, and India. Our copyediting is all US-based, and other services including developmental editing, permissions management, proofreading, indexing, and other services can be placed with different pools of resources to best address a project’s needs and budget.

Clients we serve include:
– The MIT Press
– Duke University Press
– Harvard University Press
– Johns Hopkins University Press
– Princeton University Press

“Westchester has simplified project management for The MIT Press, while also providing complete transparency. In addition to receiving regular updates from their production editors, we are able to conveniently access the Westchester Client Portal at any time to upload or download assets, and see the status of our projects. The ability to have everything we need for the projects we assign to Westchester conveniently and securely accessible has significantly reduced the time our production team spends on tracking project information.” – Jim Mitchell, Production Manager, The MIT Press

White Papers for Policy Groups, Think Tanks, and Foundations

The needs of policy groups, think tanks, and related foundations are very different than those of typical book publishers, so in 2008 Westchester launched a program to support the white papers, working papers, and other types of publications released by these organizations. With our ability to provide rapid turn copyediting and setting papers in InDesign, Word, 3B2, or LaTeX, we can address the specific needs organizations have to get research to policy makers and the public quickly.

Clients we serve include:
– Brookings Institution Press
– Center for Strategic and International Studies
– Hoover Institution Press
– The RAND Corporation
– The Mercatus Center
– The US Institute of Peace
– The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education

“A company’s ability to grow in today’s economy often relies on creating flexible product workflows. Westchester Publishing Services has made it possible for my four-person editorial department to manage labor-intensive book projects on schedule and on budget, all the while allowing us to keep our focus on other non-book publishing responsibilities. I am impressed by the quality of Westchester’s work—from design to typesetting to e-book creation—as well as their professionalism. One of my chief concerns initially was that an outside company could not match our high editorial standards. Not so! Working with Westchester makes great publishing the norm.” – Garrett Brown, Director of Publications, The Mercatus Center

Journal and Periodicals

Westchester helps journal publishers with hundreds of thousands of pages of journal content each year, with content spreading across different disciplines such as medicine, technology, law, music theory, art history, religion, and more. While many providers try to force journal publishers to adhere to their workflow, Westchester offers a bespoke, tailored solution for each journal publisher with the strengths of our US and India-based operations playing roles from manuscript prep to article management to technical editing, identifying and embedding DOI’s, typesetting in InDesign or 3B2, handling LaTeX, and more. We work with online distributors and aggregators such as SilverChair, PubMedCentral, and others – and can handle posting articles to platforms.

Clients we serve include:
– American Association of Physician Leadership
– Duke University Press
– Harvard Education Publishing Group
– Mary Ann Liebert Publishers
– West Virginia University Press
– The MIT Press

Professional Publishers including Legal Publishers

Professional publishers handling content for legal professionals, accountants, nurses, and other industry leaders need specific domain expertise for the citations, coding, and other nuances of this content. Westchester has years of typesetting and editorial experience supporting publishers of this kind of content, with dedicated resources by domain expertise. Through partnerships with organizations like Fastcase/VLex, Westchester can append citation links for legal publishers, and similarly work closely with publishers of other content to append DOI’s and other external links.

Clients we serve include:
– American Nurses Association
– Blue360 Media
– Harvard Education Publishing Group
– National Fire Prevention Association

“Westchester Publishing Services has done a superb job for us handling composition, eBook conversion, cover creation, and numerous other tasks we’ve called upon them to do on short notice. They were instrumental as we migrated editorial/production operations from the company that formerly published our products to Blue360 Media as a standalone entity. We’ve been particularly impressed with WPS’ flexibility, turnaround times, attention to quality, and ability to collaborate on different approaches to projects depending on our available resources at a particular time. We’ve gone to them seeking help with unique editorial projects and they’ve been able to analyze our needs and to deliver tailored solutions. The project management has been responsive and first-rate.” – Larry Selby, VP, Content, Blue360 Media, Inc.

Trade Association Publishers

Trade Associations are increasingly building out publishing programs, expanding upon the content they have been sharing with their membership. Some are looking to create more polished downloadable content for their members via their sites; others are launching more traditional book and journal publishing programs to expand the channels through which they share content with their industry. This podcast [link] talks about the nuances of trade association publishers, and covers some of the asks we handle for clients in this space.

Clients we serve include:
– Maryland State Bar Association
– National Wholesalers and Distributors Association

“Westchester’s ability to provide high-quality production services for well-regarded legal publishers was an important consideration for our association, and gave us confidence in contracting out tasks like tagging, layout, and composition rather than managing them in-house. Doing so has freed up our editors to focus more fully on author management, recruitment, and providing expert legal editing for the content our professional membership relies upon us for in carrying out their work in the Maryland legal community.” – Andrea Terry, Director of Learning, Maryland State Bar Association

We provide a wide range of services for our clients including:
– Domestic Full Service Editorial and Project Management
– India Direct Full Service with optional US Copyediting
– LaTeX
– Education Services
– Composition Services
– Digital Conversions
– Art Services

Markets We Serve