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Friday the 13th may be unlucky for some, but for our Content and Services Manager, Emma Hudson, it was a day to remember as she attended the Publishing Professionals Freelancers’ ...

Westchester Education's Rebecca Durose-Croft and Emma Hudson were in attendance for the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) Summer Business Insights Day which took place on 4 July at The Oval ...

by Emma Hudson, Content & Services Manager Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an ideal time to remind ourselves that the significance of including digital accessibility in educational resources is ...

by Kevin J. Gray, President Last week (February 26-28, 2024) the Digital Learning Collaborative hosted DLAC in Austin, TX. Now in its sixth year, this annual gathering of online and hybrid schools, school groups, ...

by Emma Hudson, Content & Services Manager Two hot topics of conversation right now in the education space are AI and sustainability. Both have large implications for the future of ...

by Emma Hudson, Content and Services Manager Young people today have an increased sense of environmental consciousness and are interested in ways to protect and save the planet. In a ...

Why English Language Teaching materials benefit from an international approach by Rebecca Durose-Croft, Managing Director, Westchester Education UK & International The Westchester Education teams ­– based here in the UK ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial Director, River Editorial On the 18th and 19th of April 2023, Westchester Publishing Services UK were proud to exhibit at the IPG Spring Conference, held at ...

By Emma Hudson, Content and Services Manager Making sure your content is accessible is more important than ever, especially as all content providers will be required to comply with the ...

Following the announcement of her appointment as Managing Director of Westchester Education UK & International earlier this year, we caught up with Rebecca Durose-Croft about her journey so far and ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial and Pre-Press Director, River Editorial As a ‘Supplier Member’ of the Independent Publishers Guild for many years, we were eager to attend the IPG Spring Conference ...

by Tom Storr, Project Editor, Westchester Education UK & International We were delighted to attend  The British Book Awards 2022 – also known as the Nibbies – last month to celebrate ...

by Rosie Stewart, Editorial and Pre-Press Director, River Editorial IPG awards 2022 – Oxo Tower Restaurant, London – 27th April 2022 Even as we queued for the lifts to take ...

Amazon has announced that effective June 28, when uploading ePub content for new books or updates to previously published content on their platform, mobi files will no longer be supported ...

Compiled by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager The first three months of 2021 have given us a sense of increased optimism, and we hope the same is true for ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer As we reach the anniversary of the beginning of the Pandemic “Lockdown” back in March 2020, two Washington Post articles caught my attention ...

As 2020 comes to a close, and we all look forward to the news of a pandemic vaccine with hope and relief, the team at Westchester Publishing Services is grateful ...

by Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer Last month, Westchester Education Services and Westchester Education Services UK, Ltd attended The Stationers’ Company’s annual Innovation Excellence Awards. The Stationers’ ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager The staff at Westchester’s locations around the world are continuing to work remotely for their health and safety as well as that of ...

Walter Henderson, Senior Supervising Editor, ELT This blog highlights the importance of academic writing for English Language Learners (ELLs) in Asia and offers a few solutions for those who are ...

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Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager We are only four months into the year, but it's clear that 2020 will be profoundly transformative. The coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching impacts ...

by Walter Henderson, Jr., Senior Supervising Editor of ELT What is CLIL? As outlined in this article from the British Council, CLIL [klɪl] is a tongue-twisting acronym that stands for Content ...

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by Tim Davies, Managing Director, Westchester Education Services UK I was excited to receive a copy of Illuminate Publishing’s ‘GCSE Statistics’ textbook this week. Westchester Education Services partnered with award-winning ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager In the summer months, the pace typically slows down, allowing an opportunity to relax and enjoy the longer, warmer days summertime offers up ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I saw this post in my Google News feed a week or so ago, and put it aside to consider. CNBC reported on ...

Tim Davies, Westchester UK's Managing Director is looking forward to attending the IPG Autumn Conference that takes place on Tuesday, 17th September, and chatting with independent publishers about their editorial ...

by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager We’re halfway through our 50th year in business, and Westchester Publishing Services has continued to be very productive in several areas! Here are ...

LaTeX is one of the most powerful typesetting platforms for publishers of mathematics, economics, and other content requiring the presentation of equations. But, if you’re a publisher of that type ...

Wow! We’re all really excited at Westchester Publishing Services about the news we just received that The Stationers’ Company, London’s guild for the publishing and media industries, has shortlisted Westchester’s ...

This past Friday, the W3C announced the final specification for EPUB 3.2 files. What does this mean for you? Well, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) acts as the industry ...

by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer I joined Wolters Kluwer’s Aspen Publishing imprint in 2001 as a sales rep. At the time, law books (and they were almost solely ...

There’s an often overlooked page on Westchester’s website called “Pre-Edit Services.” Pre-Edit services are not an in-demand service that publishers often shop for, the way they do copyediting, design, typesetting, ...

April 5, 2019 CONTINUING A PARTNERSHIP OF MORE THAN A QUARTER-CENTURY From Westchester Publishing Services’ beginnings as a typesetting company exactly fifty years ago, trade publishers have relied on the ...

April 3, 2019 Tim Davies, Managing Director Tim Davies was appointed Managing Director of our new, UK operation in 2018. Tim is well-known in the British publishing industry, with a ...

Keeping costs in check on publication projects may mean you need to rely on outside editorial and production resources. If you decide to work with a production facility that is ...

Westchester has been a client of Dropbox for some time, and after conducting an in-depth analysis of the extent of their capabilities, we made the decision to partner with them at ...