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by Tyler M. Carey The past several weeks have seen myself, Hugh Shiebler (Director, Client Solutions), and Julie Willis (Editorial Director, Westchester Publishing Services UK) visiting conferences and events that ...

Westchester Publishing Services participated and was an exhibitor during the Association of University Presses Conference which took place in Montreal, June 10-14, 2024. This was the first in-person annual meeting ...

Travels with Tyler, New York City Publishers Weekly put on one of the most compelling NYC-based publishing trade shows in years on Wednesday, May 22nd at New York University's Kimmel ...

Summer 2024 Edition Working with as many publishers as we have the privilege to do, the employees here at Westchester often have long lists of books we want to read, ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer On Friday, April 12th, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) once again graciously hosted their annual meeting in-person at New York City’s Harvard ...

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 ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer The team at US employee-owned Westchester Publishing Services are enormously fortunate to work with the hundreds of publishers and content providers around the ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer For the past few years, getting together at the end of the year to celebrate as we typically did pre-pandemic was challenging for ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Seasons Readings! This is the sixth year for our annual December tradition of presenting books that members of the Westchester staff want ...

Discussing the Westchester Publishing Services Client Portal by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer This week’s Dropbox Work in Progress conference in New York City was exciting whether you are ...

by Hugh Shiebler, Director, Client Solutions As Alvin Toffler wrote over fifty years ago, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer 2023 has been another busy year here at US employee-owned Westchester Publishing Services, as we continue to expand our stateside and offshore operations ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer It’s been a busy few weeks for me, meeting with some of our clients about expanding our support for their lists, this year ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager In a summer season likely to be filled with "revenge travel" as people catch up on trips that were postponed the last ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Westchester Publishing Services has decades of history helping different types of publishers and content providers, including trade publishers, children’s publishers, K-12 EdTech platforms, ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer It has been longer than I would have liked since I last shared a post-conference blog post. I am glad that NYC’s Digital ...

The Benefits of Using the Right Vendor Instead of In-House Resources In my previous article, “The Benefits of Sending Pre-Press Production Work to a Vendor,” I discussed the potential cost ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager While the publishing industry continues to contend with various challenges in the marketplace, it also has a deep foundation of resiliency and ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Seasons Readings! Five years ago was the first time that I compiled these semi-annual posts which are only possible due to my ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer As 2022 comes to a close, and many of us are in the midst of more holiday travel than we've done in years, ...

The Benefits of Sending Pre-Press Production Work to a Vendor A question which regularly comes up for discussion in our management meetings is, “What is a publisher’s point of view ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Usually, the Autumn weeks leading up to Halloween and Thanksgiving have been times when Westchester’s clients were heads down on projects, aiming to ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer This past year has been a good opportunity for a lot of us to re-set and reevaluate things, as workplaces, industry events, and ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager It always amazes me how quickly the days speed by and that I'm posting once again about some of the books my ...

by Deb Taylor, Director, Business Development & Marketing Conversations A newcomer’s view from the BISG Annual Meeting OOOH, I was going to see people without a Zoom frame! Did I ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I had the great fortune to participate virtually on a panel at PubWest 2022 with Rachel Noorda (Director of Book Publishing, Portland State ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager During the past year, Westchester has been fortunate to support a growing number of publishers with a wide variety of project requirements, ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Long time readers of the Westchester Publishing Services blog will know that prior to the pandemic, traveling into the market to meet with ...

compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager 2021 has been extremely productive for all of us here at Westchester, as the number of publishers we work with and the ...

The past year and a half has presented its fair share of challenges for publishers, including how to repurpose existing content into the formats that your readers want to access ...

Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager This is the fourth annual edition of this blog post, where I ask my colleagues to share with me (and all of ...

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 ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager On Tuesday, March 2, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) hosted the webinar, “Book Printing in the U.S. Market: An Update. BISG Executive ...

Tyler M. Carey, Westchester's Chief Revenue Officer, has worked with our sales and marketing teams that have led our growth since becoming an employee-owned company in 2014. Recently, Tyler sat ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Publishing friends, I'm very fortunate to be one of the (growing number of) American members of The Stationers' Company. The Company acts as ...

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 ...

Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager As a year truly unlike any other winds down, I was curious about the books that my colleagues have read or would ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Westchester and the publishing industry overall have continued to change how we work on publication projects this year. Being able to successfully pivot and ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my participation in The Stationers’ Company, the City of London’s livery company - or ...

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 Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Westchester Publishing Services is proud to share that we recently became a member of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). BISG works to ...

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 ...

Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Join Westchester Publishing Services and Publishers Weekly for a webinar on Wednesday, July 8, about the changing modes of work, book production, printing, and ...

Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager With the year almost halfway through, it seems likely that 2020 will leave a lasting imprint on our collective memory. We 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 ...

Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Like so many of you reading this, in mid-March the entire staff at Westchester’s offices around the world transitioned to a work from home ...

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 Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Usually, these “Travels with Tyler” blog posts on the Westchester Publishing Services and Westchester Education Services websites are post-conference or post-road-trip recaps of ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer In November 2019, Amazon released updated epub3 accessibility guidelines and now officially recommends using the ACE Accessibility Checker from the DAISY Consortium for ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer If you were fortunate enough to be in Central London, tonight, you would have had the opportunity to attend another great BookMachine event, ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager The calendar is winding down to the final days of the year, the decade, and Westchester's 50th anniversary in business. It has been ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer In October, I was fortunate enough to speak on a panel held in conjunction with the latest session of the Rutgers University Design ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer It seems for the last several years that visits to our partners’ operations in New England and the Beltway tend to land in ...

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 the UK's Booksellers' ...

Thank you for thinking of us. We appreciate the outreach of so many of our clients, business partners, and friends today who inquired about the safety of our K-12 team ...

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 ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer When I worked in legal publishing, staff regularly flew to India to meet with the typesetting vendor that was doing the bulk of ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Westchester Publishing Services Client Portal version 2019.C.05, now more user friendly and feature rich to improve your productivity as publications move through the workflow. And as always, ...

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 ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer This past Friday, the W3C announced the final specification for EPUB 3.2 files. What does this mean for you? Well, the W3C (World ...

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, ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Westchester is proud to be celebrating 50 years of providing publishers with quality pre-press services. The ways that content can be delivered and ...

Who’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 as possible?  Westchester Publishing Services ...

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 pre-press services we ...

Tim Davies was appointed Managing Director of our new, UK operation in 2018. Tim is well-known in the British publishing industry, with a strong reputation and an excellent network of ...

Hot on the heels of my trip to London for the London Book Fair, I visited another country in the Commonwealth, heading up to Toronto, Canada for the International Studies ...

Once again, Westchester exhibited at the London Book Fair at the Olympia in Kensington, London, UK. This year, Dennis Pistone (Chairman) and Tim Davies (Managing Director, UK) were in attendance ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Why do policy groups partner with US employee-owned Westchester Publishing Services on their books and white papers?  We provide a wider breadth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Weekly Star Watch event took place in New York City on September 12, 2018. Co-hosted by Publishers Weekly and ...

All of us at Westchester Publishing Services are very excited to share this press release with full details about the launch of our UK office in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. With the opening of the office, Tim Davies, who initially joined on earlier ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager Maybe it sped by due to how busy we are here at Westchester, but spring has bloomed into summer. Join me for a ...

George Baier IV is Media Industry Principal at Dropbox, responsible for communicating the company's unique perspective on how Dropbox can transform work and IT infrastructure for customers in the media ...

by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services We launched the K-12 division just over a year ago, debuting at the AAP Content in Context forum. Westchester K-12 ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Last December, I shared on this blog a list of books our staff had read in 2017 that they enjoyed so much, they ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer A week and a half following my return, and I have finally dug out from a very productive London Book Fair. Westchester once ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Though it took a long time getting to the East Coast this year, I really enjoy the spring season because it's a time ...

IPG Spring Conference, and gearing up for the London Book Fair By Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer IPG’s annual Spring Conference, held at the Crowne Plaza Heythrop Park in ...

by Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services In this edition of Cover to Cover, I’m going to take you through the steps we consider when we are designing a textbook ...

by Michael Jon Jensen – Director of Technology I recently returned from my third visit to our offices in Chennai, India. The first trip seven months ago was an adventure and ...

Tim Davies, ALPSP UP Redux, Stationers’ Company - and more By Tyler M. Carey – Chief Revenue Officer Westchester’s year is off to a great start, especially with the growth of ...

by Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services Hello everyone! In this post, I will cover general use images and where we obtain them. As we work on most design projects, there ...

By Nicole Tomassi, Marketing and Conference Manager In 2017, Westchester Publishing Services enjoyed several significant accomplishments, and we're already hard at work to build upon those successful initiatives in 2018 ...

by Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services Hello, I’m Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services for Westchester Publishing Services. To give you some background about myself, I am a Founder/Partner of ...

By Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Westchester returned to the UK a few weeks ago for meetings with customers, partners, and potential customers, this time with three tentpole events ...

Conference Observations and Highlights By David Bailis, STEM Content Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services Kevin Gray and I recently attended the SIIA conference in Washington, D.C. It was my first ...

Book Recommendations from the Westchester Publishing Services staff - by Nicole Tomassi We've arrived in December, the time of year where – if we're lucky to have a moment to ...

Observations from the 2017 National Council of Teachers of English Conference By Tim Cross, Business Development Manager Tyler Carey and I enjoyed attending the NCTE conference in St. Louis, MO last ...

Westchester was proud to sponsor The Bookseller's Children's Conference which took place at the Barbican Centre in London, on 26 September. CEO Dennis Pistone and I attended and staffed our ...

Conference Observations  and Highlights by Kevin J. Gray, Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services I’ve recently returned from the EdNET 2017 Conference, held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The weather outside was hot, ...

Westchester Publishing Services a Gold Sponsor of PW Star Watch 2017 By Guest Blogger – Nicole Tomassi Three years ago, in an effort to bring well-deserved attention to people on the ...

Westchester Publishing Services Sponsoring The Bookseller Conferences By Guest Blogger - Tyler M. Carey Westchester Publishing Services continues to grow its presence in the U.K. market, and has a tremendous ...

Annual supplement focuses on digital solutions for publishers Westchester recently had the opportunity to participate once again in Publishers Weekly's Digital Solutions in India annual supplement.  This annual issue helps ...

By Guest Blogger Nicole Tomassi If it seems like we’ve done a lot of blog posts lately about conferences, you’re right!  Westchester’s schedule is filled with numerous events, particularly from ...

Plugging in: Insights from the CSE and SSP 2017 Annual Meetings - by Guest Blogger Tim Cross As I mentioned in last month's blog post, spring is a busy time of year ...

Insights from the Association of American Publishers Content in Context Conference - by Guest Blogger Kevin Gray   I’ve recently returned from another successful AAP Content in Context conference, where ...

  Scholarly Publishing Perspectives: Recap of the NISO and STM Meetings - by Guest Blogger Tim Cross - In the community of Scholarly Publishing, April and May are often called ...

The month of May always tends to be busy here at Westchester Publishing Services, and this year is no different. This week, we announced the addition of Kevin J. Gray ...

Tim Cross, Business Development Manager at Westchester Publishing Services, will be the host of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) spring Scholarly Kitchen Webinar: The Future of Access, Authentication and Privacy, to be ...

Conference season is underway in the publishing industry, and Westchester Publishing Services is pleased to share that Tim Cross, Business Development Manager, will be attending the NISO Live Connections Event, as ...

“Composition is not a commodity; it’s something that matters, both to the author and the reader.” I have just returned from the London Book Fair, where I enjoyed having the ...

Tim Cross, Westchester Publishing Services' Business Development Manager, is the host of Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP) 2017 webinar program. The first webinar in the six session schedule "Hiring the Next Generation ...

By Guest Blogger Nicole Tomassi …From the faraway town of Danbury, Connecticut, Westchester Publishing Services will attend London Book Fair, taking place March 14-16 across the pond at the Olympia Exhibition ...

Last week, I returned from the U.S. Publishing Mission to Cuba.  I was invited by the organizing committee (which included staff from Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit) to participate ...

Today, Westchester Publishing Services is excited to share with you an update about the progress of our Client Portal initiative, along with a video demonstrating some of its expanded capabilities! ...

By Guest Blogger Tim Cross I just returned from the PSP Conference in Washington, DC a couple of days ago. As someone who is continuously curious about the issues facing ...

Attending conferences and engaging with our customers has always been a priority for Westchester. By meeting with so many clients and potential new clients, learning about their projects, and exploring ...

Your partners at Westchester Publishing Services would like to wish you and your family a happy and peaceful holiday season. The year 2016 was a time of exceptional growth for ...