Production Services
We strive to exceed publishers’ expectations in all aspects of production services. This includes coordinating with your in-house publishing staff, creating interior and cover designs, managing editorial and project management services, hiring printers, organizing photo shoots, and so much more.
Composition and Design Services
Marketing strategies play a large role in the creation of print and electronic products. Getting the right look and feel of a publication determines whether an organization meets its sales goals or creates losses. PPS’s graphic designers provide creative services preparing design concepts and art programs to integrate these strategies into quality publications. When a design is completed, clients receive layouts and specifications that are ready for production. PPS design services include:
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Cover Design | PPS designs covers for many projects including CD tray liners and book jackets. A combination of photos, graphics, and fonts are used to create the artwork for your product. Designs are custom developed to fit your project and meet marketing requirements for promotion purposes. |
| Interior Book Design | Following the editorial direction and marketing goals of the customer, PPS creates interior text designs for both e-book and print while keeping your budget in mind. Designs range from simple one-color to complex multiple-color layouts of content and structure |
| Photo Research | After writing content for a multitude of projects, some authors may struggle with choosing graphics to accompany their text, or may not be able to find their “wish-list” photo. PPS researches and locates photos to complete your content and enhance visual appeal and marketability while keeping your budget in mind. PPS also obtains permissions for the images that are used. |
| Art Rendering | When creating new pieces of artwork, the latest art programs are utilized to guarantee quality and timeliness. PPS creates a variety of artwork including situational line drawings, icons, graphics, charts, chemistry, slide presentations, and more. When using your rough sketches or descriptions, PPS can create beautiful, quality works of art to meet the goals for your product. |
Professional Editorial Services
The editorial professionals at PPS provide the critical eye needed to improve the editorial integrity of content ready to be published. We offer editorial proofreading services, copyediting services, and other professional editing needs to our clients. High standards and attention to detail are the keys to success for the PPS editorial staff. The following list briefly describes our comprehensive editorial services:
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Copyediting | Our professional copyeditors perform a thorough editorial review of written text, making the content conform to the editing standards requested by the client. This important service includes verifying and correcting the grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency, and cross-references to ready the text and graphics for composition. For contributing author material, our editorial team maintains consistency and continuity throughout the entire manuscript. Our copyediting services are essential in warranting a final product that is organized, complete, and correct. |
| Editorial Proofreading and Quality Control | PPS’s editorial proofreaders thoroughly review page proofs so they accurately reflect the customer’s final product, checking against design specifications and author-approved manuscript. For authors needing assistance, PPS provides editing and proofreading instructions and tools if necessary. Quality control at every step of the production process is critical for achieving the best possible final product. Our staff also provides electronic editing and proofreading guidance to authors if needed. |
| Editorial Services for Websites and Electronic Products | PPS edits and proofreads electronic projects, correcting grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Quality control steps include checking and verifying links, multimedia clips, and navigation for CDs and Websites to confirm that each link opens correctly. |
| Accuracy Checking | Scientific and technical content is checked for accuracy to verify that facts, math, and scientific calculations are correct. The PPS professionals are experts in a variety of fields, guaranteeing that a project’s content receives a thorough and informed fact checking. Accuracy checker expertise includes mathematics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology, business, medical, economics, accounting, law, engineering, history, and social sciences. |
| Problem Solving, Answer Verification, and Creating Solutions Manuals | PPS checks and verifies solutions to problems in fields such as mathematics, statistics, probability, and engineering, and can also verify the answer key solutions simultaneously. We can also create solutions manuals to show the step-by-step work needed to arrive at the correct answer for each problem. |
| Indexing | PPS provides complete and reliable indexes of the contents of published products. Depending on the subject matter and the client requirements, indexes range from simple to very detailed, comprehensive directories. Multiple indexes can also be prepared, and may include subject, author, and company indexes, thereby creating roadmaps to the product’s content. |