Higher Education

Client List

  • Bedford/St. Martin’s
  • Cengage
  • John Wiley &Sons
  • Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
  • McGraw-Hill
  • Pearson Higher Education

Project List

  • Turley, Medical Language, Prentice Hall
  • Wingerd, Medical Terminology Complete! Prentice Hall
  • Troyka, Simon &Schuster Handbook for Writers, Prentice Hall
  • London/Upton, Photography, Prentice Hall
  • Alred, Technical Writers Handbook, Bedford/St. Martin’s
  • Alred, Business Writers Handbook, Bedford/St. Martin’s
  • Kirszner, Patterns for College Writing, Bedford/St. Martin’s
  • Atwan, America Now, Bedford/St. Martin’s
  • Pearlson, Managing &Using Info Systems: A Strategic Approach, John Wiley &Sons, Inc.
  • Magal, Essentials of Business Processes and Information Systems, John Wiley &Sons, Inc.
  • Matlin, Cognition, International Edition, John Wiley &Sons, Inc.
  • Shapiro, Multinational Financial Management, John Wiley &Sons, Inc.
  • Giambattista, Physics, McGraw-Hill
  • Goodwin, Global Studies: Latin America, McGraw-Hill
  • Hillier, Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw-Hill
  • Cruz, Fundamentals of Taxation, 2008, McGraw-Hill
  • Podolefsky/Brown, Applying Cultural Anthropology, McGraw-Hill
  • Nese/Grenci, Worlds of Weather, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
  • Worcester/Whatley, Women's Health, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
  • Cherrington, Creating Effective Organizations, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Project Samples

Higher Education

An Introduction

Laserwords Maine is a full service vendor offering a full range of services for the higher education market. We work directly with publishers in all areas of education including, among others, the humanities, social sciences, engineering, science, math, business, and education, as well as medical and trade production. Our staff has many years of experience in providing services such as:

  • Editing
  • Project management
  • Author interaction
  • Composition and page layout
  • Art management
  • Proofreading
  • Design along with all the details needed to bring a book to the market.

Our seasoned staff works closely with the authors and handles all production processes and scheduling, providing publishers with the exact amount of control that they need for the titles.

Production

The Higher Education team offers excellent services in high-end production for publishers in the areas of composition and layout for high profile work to custom publishing. The 20+ years of experience can be seen in our expertise and the quality of the work we produce using up-to-date software. Our attention to detail and adherence to schedules are top notch and we focus on excellent customer service.

Production carries a title from raw manuscript to printer including:

  • Creating Templates
  • Keyboarding
  • Coding
  • Maintaining XML
  • Formatting Manuscripts
  • Layout (with expert design layout standards)
  • Art Drafting, Scanning, and Placement
  • Low and High Res PDF Placement
  • Printer Files Using Appropriate Standards
  • Archiving
  • Electronic Workflow, if desired

Project Management

Our full-service project managers remove the burden of the day-to-day process from publishers. We take a book from rough manuscript and see it through to the printer. Project management includes the following:

  • Manuscript Review
  • Provision for Coding and Copyediting
  • Management of Author Reviews
  • Management of Art Studio and Photo Research
  • Providing Art and Permission Logs
  • Monitor Permission Research
  • Scheduling
  • Manage Composition
  • Oversee Proofreading
  • Manage Design Creation
  • Acquire CIP Information
  • Indexing
  • Manage Multimedia Files
  • Work with the Assigned Printer
  • Manage Archiving