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Managed book production for K–12 educational publishers in India. Hand us one title and get it back press-ready in twenty working days, with your editor approving every gate.

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20

working days per title

₹75,000

your first title

2

correction rounds, included

302 · Components of food

2.3 A balanced diet

A diet that contains all the nutrients the body needs, in the right amounts, is called a balanced diet. Carbohydrates and fats give the body energy. Proteins build and repair it. Vitamins and minerals protect it against disease.

A balanced diet must also carry roughage and water. Roughage is the fibre in food that the body cannot digest; it helps the body remove waste.

Fig. 2.3 · Nutrients in a day’s meals for a child aged eleven

Activity 2.1

List everything you ate yesterday. Against each item, mark which nutrient it supplied. Which nutrient appears least often?

Balanced diet31

Cooking makes food easier to digest and improves its taste, but some nutrients are lost in the process. Vitamin C is lost when food is heated for a long time, and again when cooking water is thrown away.

Eating too much of one nutrient is as much an imbalance as eating too little of another. A diet heavy in carbohydrates and short of proteins can leave a child undernourished even when the plate is full.

Exercises 2.1

  1. 1. Name two energy-giving foods and two body-building foods.
  2. 2. Why is roughage necessary, although the body cannot digest it?
  3. 3. Which nutrient is lost when vegetables are boiled for a long time?
  4. 4. A meal has rice, dal and a green vegetable. Which nutrient is it short of, and what would you add?
  5. 5. Compare a day’s meals at home with the chart in Fig. 2.3. Where do the two differ most?
Press-ready proof, pp. 30–31

01/ 06The problem

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

The curriculum changed. The academic calendar did not.

NCF 2023 has put every K–12 publisher on a deadline that cannot move. The question is not whether the list needs rebuilding — it is how much of it reaches the next session.

One year to the next session

Scroll — both lanes run at their real rate

Produced in-house

4–6 months a title · 2–3 titles a year

Title 3 only lands if every title that year runs at the fast end of the range.

Commissioned

20 working days a title · up to 13 titles

Today3 months6 months9 monthsNext session

Sequential capacity on one production line, from the two published figures: 4–6 months a title in-house, twenty working days commissioned. A real slate is also limited by your own review turnaround and by how many titles you can run at once — which is the conversation the scoping call is for.

4–6 months
to produce one title through a traditional pipeline
8 handoffs
between curriculum analysis and press-ready file
₹250–350
per page for composition alone
One session
is what missing an adoption window costs

Sources: UDISE+ 2024-25, Ministry of Education · Indian Printer & Publisher, October 2024 · industry benchmarks.

02/ 06How it works

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

Eight handoffs, or one

A commission collapses the chain into a single supplier carrying a single date. Five stages across twenty working days — three need your desk: the scoping call, and two approvals your editors already do today.

What a title passes through today

  1. 01Curriculum analysis
  2. 02Chapter planning
  3. 03Authoring
  4. 04Editing
  5. 05Illustration
  6. 06Composition
  7. 07Proofing
  8. 08Prepress

What a commission does instead

  1. Day 0Discovery and briefYours
  2. Days 1–3Blueprint approvalYours
  3. Days 4–14ProductionOurs
  4. Days 15–18Your review roundsYours
  5. Days 19–20Press-ready handoffOurs

  1. No new system to adopt

    Your editors keep their tools, formats and habits.

  2. No onboarding

    Nobody needs training to receive a finished file.

  3. One title, not your catalogue

    Start with a single book and judge us on it.

The twenty days, day by dayOr read what a commission includes on What we do.

03/ 06Proof

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

Not a manuscript. A finished page.

This is what arrives at the end of the twenty days, at a size you can read — with the two artefacts that ship beside it laid over it.

Specimen, Class 6 Science, pp. 30–31

302 · Components of food

2.3 A balanced diet

A diet that contains all the nutrients the body needs, in the right amounts, is called a balanced diet. Carbohydrates and fats give the body energy. Proteins build and repair it. Vitamins and minerals protect it against disease.

A balanced diet must also carry roughage and water. Roughage is the fibre in food that the body cannot digest; it helps the body remove waste.

Fig. 2.3 · Nutrients in a day’s meals for a child aged eleven

Activity 2.1

List everything you ate yesterday. Against each item, mark which nutrient it supplied. Which nutrient appears least often?

Balanced diet31

Cooking makes food easier to digest and improves its taste, but some nutrients are lost in the process. Vitamin C is lost when food is heated for a long time, and again when cooking water is thrown away.

Eating too much of one nutrient is as much an imbalance as eating too little of another. A diet heavy in carbohydrates and short of proteins can leave a child undernourished even when the plate is full.

Exercises 2.1

  1. 1. Name two energy-giving foods and two body-building foods.
  2. 2. Why is roughage necessary, although the body cannot digest it?
  3. 3. Which nutrient is lost when vegetables are boiled for a long time?
  4. 4. A meal has rice, dal and a green vegetable. Which nutrient is it short of, and what would you add?
  5. 5. Compare a day’s meals at home with the chart in Fig. 2.3. Where do the two differ most?

Composed to the publisher’s template and exported press-ready. A specimen — no pilot title has been delivered yet.

Everything in the handover

Handed over on day 20
  • Class6-Science_interior_press.pdf208 pp · fonts embeddedPDF/X-4
  • Class6-Science_source.idmlEditable compositionIDML
  • figures/Print resolution + source64 files
  • Class6-Science_annexure.pdfCompetency → unit → page → itemANNEXURE
  • Class6-Science_changelog.pdfPage-level, against the 2019 editionCHANGE LOG
  • front-back-matter/TOC, preface, glossary, index, answer keyPDF + IDML

The sixty-second version

The whole argument, in a minute

A short film on what a title costs to produce today and what a commission changes. Music, no narration — the chapters below say what it covers, and each one seeks the film.

What it covers

Where a figure in the film differs from Pricing, the Pricing page is current — and the written order governs either way.

04/ 06Compliance

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

Alignment you can hand to a school, not claim on a back cover

CBSE’s August 2024 circular requires schools to publish their prescribed book list and to exercise care with private titles. A series that can evidence its alignment on paper is materially easier to adopt.

The three documents a school will ask about

Drawn on the Class 6 Science commission

NEP 2020

Stage
Class 6
  • Pre-1 – 2
  • 3 – 5
  • 6 – 8
  • 9 – 12

The 5+3+3+4 structure, and the depth each stage expects. A Class 6 title is written to the opening year of the middle stage, not to a general secondary reading level.

NCF 2023

Sequence

208 pp in 13 formes; prelims and end matter hatched

Sequencing and coverage across the grade band. Twelve units of 16 pp, so the extent falls on a signature and the annexure below can name a page rather than a chapter.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Balance
  • Remember18%
  • Understand26%
  • Apply24%
  • Analyse17%
  • Evaluate9%
  • Create6%

The cognitive distribution planned per exercise set. These are the target bands a chapter is written against — not a measurement of a delivered title, because no pilot title has shipped yet.

Mapping annexure, extract

For CBSE, ICSE and state boards
An extract from the mapping annexure delivered with each title
CompetencyUnitPageAssessment item
Classifies materials by observable properties462Ex. 4.2, Q3
Designs a simple separation procedure578Activity 5.1
Relates diet to nutrient function231Ex. 2.1, Q1–4
How alignment is built into production

05/ 06Pricing

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

Your first title is ₹75,000

Priced at the rate our highest-volume clients pay, so you can judge the work before committing to anything beyond one book. Nothing recurring, nothing locked in.

  • Start here

    First Title

    Your evaluation title

    ₹75,000

    • 180–240 page interior
    • 20 working days
    • 2 revision rounds
    • Curriculum annexure
    • Change log vs prior edition

  • Single Titles

    Commissioned one at a time

    ₹1,10,000

    • Same scope and timeline
    • Order raised per title
    • No minimum volume
    • Priority slot on request
    • Add-ons quoted separately

  • Annual Programme

    A committed slate across the year

    From ₹75,000

    • 5–15 titles a year — ₹90,000 each
    • 20+ titles a year — ₹75,000 each
    • Shared style and terminology
    • Cross-title consistency held
    • Single project schedule

The guarantee

If we are late, the fee reduces

₹18,750 credited a week, to the full fee

  • The commitment

    If we deliver past the agreed date, 25% of the fee is credited for each completed week of delay, up to the full fee. It applies automatically, without negotiation.

  • The condition

    The schedule pauses whenever delivery depends on something from your side — source files, a decision, a review round. Every pause is logged in a tracker you can see.

  • Your review window

    Two correction rounds are included. If a round comes back later than three working days, the delivery date moves by the same number of days.

  • Scope of change

    Changes to the approved blueprint after production has begun are quoted separately. This protects the date for both of us.

Full pricing and eight questionsIndicative for a standard 180–240 page title, excluding taxes.

06/ 06Book a demo

Commission AM-0416, Class 6 Science, 208 pp

Start with the title you have not been able to start

AM-0416 is finished. The next slip in the book is blank — three lines for you to say, and everything under them settled before anyone picks up the phone.

Do we have to send you the manuscript first?
No files or manuscripts needed for the first conversation
What happens to our material?
An NDA is signed before anything is exchanged
Are we committing to the whole list?
One title only — no catalogue commitment
How long before we hear back?
We reply within one working day

Commission slip

No. AM-0417

Yours to say

Title
left blank — the publisher supplies this
Board
left blank — the publisher supplies this
Extent
left blank — the publisher supplies this

Already fixed, in writing

Delivery
20 working days
Fee
₹75,000
Corrections
2 rounds, included
If we are late
₹18,750 credited a week
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