OFFSHORE SOURCING: Feasibility, Economics, and Publisher/Supplier Initiatives

Please join Bookbuiders West for a panel discussion regarding a very hot topic in our Publishing Industry. Offshore Sourcing is becoming a very large initiative with many Publishers, Vendors, Freelancers and Service Providers in the Industry. The Offshore Initiative began with manufacturing services earlier this decade. In the past few years these outsourced services now include production, media services, prepress, editorial, project management, conversion/tagging, art and design. Benefits as well as drawbacks will be discussed with the panel, including the tools being used with Professional, Trade/Reference, School and College Publishers.

Bookbuilders West is pleased to have three very experienced and traveled Design and Production panel members to discuss the Feasibility, Economics and Publisher/Supplier Initiatives in our industry today.

Jane Stark
International Typesetting & Composition
Director Sales and Marketing

ITC is a full service vendor for major U.S. publishers. Jane has been working with ITC and offshoring for seven years. ITC has offices in Noida, India and the U.S.

Linda Toy
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Vice President, Editing, Design and Production
Humanities, Social Sciences & Language

Linda just recently returned from India to visit many off-shore suppliers and vendors. Linda’s team in San Francisco and McGraw-Hill Higher Education currently outsource many of their titles off-shore for composition and pre-press services.

Vellayan Subbiah
Laserwords
President

Vellayan is currently President with Laserwords, and has been heavily involved with off-shoring and outsourcing with India for over 6 years. Prior to this experience, Vellayan was a consultant at McKinsey&Company. Laserwords is a production/pre-press provider with operations in the U.S. and India.

We are pleased to announce the addition of an new speaker.

Mary Hazlewood, Production Technology Manager at John Wiley and Sons, Professional and Trade Division will be joining our panel. For the past six months Mary has been working on the transition of composition and prepress to vendors offshore in India. Mary recently visited India, calling on key suppliers in Delhi, Noida and Channai.

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Location - Jillian's at Metreon
101 Fourth Street, Suite 170, San Francisco, CA 94103
Ph. #415-369-6101
Cost - $36/members and $40/non-members - Become a member now!

April 25th, 2007
Registration - 5:30pm-6pm
Dinner - 6pm - 7pm
Speakers - 7pm - 8:30pmmax. occupancy is 60 people - please sign up asap to secure your reservation

Event CLOSED! Thanks.

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For questions about this event, contact Elise Gochberg, phone: (707) 585-7445, email: eliseg@sbcglobal.net.