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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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 ...
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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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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, ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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In 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. But do you know ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 offshore editorial services 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 ...
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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 Weekly Star Watch event took place in New York City on September 12, 2018. Co-hosted by Publishers Weekly and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Benefits of Using the Right Vendor Instead of In-House Resources by Paul J. Crecca, President and CFO of Westchester Publishing Services In my previous article, “The Benefits of Sending ...
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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, ...
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The Benefits of Sending Pre-Press Production Work to a Vendor by Paul J. Crecca, President and CFO of Westchester Publishing Services A question which regularly comes up for discussion in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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  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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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“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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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! ...
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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 ...
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While word got out in advance of our press release dropping, we want to take this opportunity to formally welcome Tim Cross to Westchester Publishing Services as our Business ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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