July

There are Authors books...Authors dictates everything ( privilege* to best selling, acclaimed ones)
There are Publisher's book-they spell out the requirement , define everything
…and there is an in-between category

Most academic books r launched around/before July i.e before when the academic sessions begin, the months preceding these spell chaos in the editor’s room.

As I entered office… there was celebrative air, a new book was launched after two years of hard work. The sponsoring editor had a tough time getting the project cleared and getting the author to deliver on time… a thousand other bottlenecks…now unbelievably the book is PUBLISHED. I participated in the last lap of editing the Higher Engineering Mathematics book. As I held the book reading familiar names in the list of contributors thinking the work was over... I read something about the web pages available for the book and then
“Hey listen…this is urgent…the web pages are lying on your desk- edit ‘em fast, we hv said that pages are available … …

*Ironically this privilege is a factor salability…