┆Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets; first side of recording ends on page 17): procedure in Methuen Tavistock for commissioning a publication (1-2); negotiations with academic authors over advances and royalties (3-5); importance of sales in the United States of books with small print runs (4-5); payment of royalties as a percentage of published price or of net sales receipts (5-7); problems caused by academic authors missing deadlines for submitting manuscripts (7-10); dealing with amendments to manuscripts recommended by independent readers (10-12); difficulties with handling text on computer disc (12-13); handover of completed manuscripts, together with marketing and other information, to desk editors (14-15); use of freelance copy editors (15-16); skills required of copy editors (17-18); handover of manuscripts with relevant information to production department (18-19); sending design briefs to jacket designers (19-20); sending information on new publications to the United States company and to the marketing department (20-21); process of book design (21-22); timing of estimates of production costs (23); range of typesetters used by ABP imprints (23-24); checking of proofs returned from typesetters (24-25); compilation of indexes either by authors themselves or by freelance indexers (25-26); factors determining size of print runs and selling prices of academic books (26-27, 30-32); checking of corrected proofs (28); checking of unbound running sheets and receipt of finished book (29); warehousing and distribution of books to reviewers and bookshops (29-30).