I often have new indexers ask me about marketing their services as they start out. The market has changed considerably since the 1990s when I was a newbie indexer. An entire publishing revolution has been happening since then. Crazy stuff with traditional publishers consolidating and outsourcing various production services to places like India, more packagers […]
Dead Indexes
I’ll never give up real, paper books (hardcopy) but I love ebooks, too, although I have a serious pet peeve about ebooks: indexes that are “dead.” A book without any index is sad, but a book with an unusable index is no only frustrating but not just plain painful. A lot of time and thought […]
The Comfort Zone
As an indexer (probably an introvert), working from home, with only the cat to supervise my work, I have escaped the stress of employment. I don’t have to trek out daily regardless of the weather to deal with people who may be wishing that they were still at home. That does not mean that there […]
PI’s Evolving Partnership
We’ve been working some interesting changes here at Potomac Indexing over the past six months, including partner departures and arrivals, and a new legal home for PI. Two of our long-time partners, Seth Maislin and Kay Schlembach, have retired as Potomac Indexing partners as of the first of January this year, and we will definitely […]
