She had spent eleven years turning manuscripts into things people read on trains, phones, and the backs of buses. I manage digital publishing programmes across a catalogue of roughly 2,400 titles, and I like the part of the work that most people never notice: the metadata, the reflow, the moment a book opens on a screen and simply behaves. Over the past two years my team lifted ebook revenue by 34% while cutting production time per title from 9 days to 5. I still read the print proofs first, out of habit.
The list had grown faster than its pipeline, and something had to give. Rebuilt the ebook production workflow so per-title turnaround dropped from 9 days to 5, clearing a backlog of 180 titles in one quarter. ✎ Later that year, the reader-facing subscription app I helped scope reached 41,000 monthly active readers within 14 months of launch.
Accessibility was treated as an afterthought until it wasn't. Brought the frontlist to full EPUB accessibility compliance, moving 620 titles to certified reflowable files. ★ Cut proofing errors flagged by retailers by 47% after introducing an automated validation step across 3 conversion vendors.
A small house, a shared desk, a lot of learning on the fly. Shipped 130+ ebook conversions a year and set up the metadata template still used across the imprint. ✎