Content Developers

He is the VC of a great Indian university. There is a book written in his name. Dedicated to the Chief Minister;) Sponsoring Editor wants some additions as from the appearance of the book it looks as if a lot is required in terms of course material...content etc. Book requires more examples and practice exercises before it can be useful for the students. We ask the author for more material.... author(the VC) of course is an expert at delegating…

Sales department in publishing house- Book has to come out in August

Editors- are tearing their hair looking at the language and content and there is content yet to arrive

Production Department (responsible for typesetting and printing)- are setting up to print but the editorial is not clearing the book. They have also not reeceived all the chapters/examples etc. How can they print....
Editors have valid reasons for not clearing- the content developers haven’t delivered the content for the book as yet…!!

#I have worked as a content developer for one year and some articles written by me were published for a govt. site ...but not in the original author's name. The copyright belongs to the company we sell our serivces to. Content developers are sellers of service like anyother service provider-they are given a set of specification and asked to meet the requirements. As a content developer I was a content developer and NOT a writer...quite reasonably because I was writing to meet a set of requirements not framed by me...i was authoring, producing, penning down the requirements speicified with little or no exercise of my mind-'just deliver' was the norm...one had to deaden oneself to one's own working mind and overtime would have learnt to mechanicaly follow instructions and draw a fixed salary- I 'd failed miserably



End of Day; it is intellectual pursuit(in whosoever's name) that wins hands down