Best Practices: EDP (Noon Zoom)

Best Practices: Editing, Design, and Production

with David Zielonka

Publishing pros know that editorial, design, and production are the heart of the publishing process. Each segment is vital for turning an idea into a book. Whether it’s dealing with the language, layout, or look of a project, each step has its own internal logic and rules for how it meshes with what comes before and after. Sign up now for this latest Best Practice presentation, which is aimed at both long-time EDP professionals and those who wonder what all the fuss is about.

• An overview of the basic processes
• How each step depends on and supports the others
• Best practices for interdepartmental delivery and transmitting projects
• How it looks from outside authors and sales partners

David Zielonka is the Director of Editorial, Design, and Production at Stanford University Press, where he oversees a staff of eight individuals in the delivery of 140-plus academic, trade, and crossover titles per year. After college, he packed books at the then-fledgling Publishers Group West. He soon discovered the classic book-production text, Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production. With that, a 40-plus-year career was born. David has worked on K-12 and college textbooks (Addison-Wesley, Pearson, Cengage), trade professional titles (Sybex, McGraw-Hill), and, of course, in the university press world (Smithsonian Institution Press, Stanford). Visit David on LinkedIn.

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