Freelance publishing-production specialists

We’d like to meet experienced freelancers who can take on publishing-production work. This includes editors, designers, and content managers who are technically confident.

We currently host a weekly Zoom call for book-makers, discussing publishing production issues and techniques. See our ‘Book-production open hours’ post for details.

Who are we looking for?

We make high-quality web books, print books, and ebooks from a single content source. This requires all the linguistic and design skills of traditional book publishing, plus confidence with web-development tools and processes.

Freelancers who enjoy working with us tend to have:

• Several years of experience in book production or content-heavy web publishing
• Technical confidence with web technologies – you don’t need to be a developer, but you do need a basic knowledge of HTML
• A deep knowledge of editorial and/or book-design standards and best practices
• A highly organised approach to their work
• A habit of communicating often and clearly to collaborators.

What’s it like to work with EBW?

We’re a small team. We work remotely, in collaboration with clients, partners, and freelancers around the world. We’re friendly people with high standards. We enjoy learning and adapting constantly in a world of demanding, evolving technologies. We prioritise working on projects that are good for the world.

We aim to brief freelancers thoroughly, to provide them with technical support, and to pay them fairly and quickly.

How to get in touch

If you’d like to be on our radar, email team@electricbookworks.com. Please help us see what you’re really good at, ideally by showing us some of your work. We need to know more than what you call yourself (e.g. an ‘editor’ or ‘designer’). Please tell us what kinds of work you do and what particular skills and experience you bring to your work. We need to be able to match you to the right kinds of work – including potentially referring others to you when we can’t take on their work.

Ideally, show us a publication, website, or app you helped to create, and explain your role in that. We’re hoping to see how you helped make it a high-quality product. You can do this in your letter, in a separate document, or a short video where you screenshare and talk.

We can’t promise work, of course, but we hope it will be mutually beneficial for us to know each other.