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From Disruption to Direction: Reinventing Academic Book Workflows with AI

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Sureshkumar Parandhaman Author

In my previous “From Disruption to Direction” article, I explored how AI is transforming scholarly journal workflows, from submission management through peer review to final production. The response from colleagues across the industry confirmed what I suspected: we’re all grappling with similar questions about how to harness AI’s potential while preserving the qualities that make academic publishing valuable.

But the transformation doesn’t stop at journals. Across the publishing landscape, academic books are entering a similar, perhaps even more profound, inflection point.

For decades, book workflows have been characterized by stability, tradition, and predictability. Timelines were measured in months or years rather than weeks. Typesetting was painstakingly human-intensive. Production models were built around sequential, linear processes where each stage waited for the previous one to complete. The systems worked, even if they weren’t always efficient.

That world is changing rapidly. Today, publishers are asking fundamentally different questions:

How can AI help accelerate book production while preserving, even enhancing, editorial quality?

Can automation and XML-first workflows make publishing more sustainable, accessible, and adaptable to multiple formats and platforms?

How do we redesign systems that serve not just publishers’ operational needs, but also authors’ creative processes, editors’ quality standards, and readers’ diverse access requirements?

At Integra, these questions aren’t academic exercises, they’re the practical challenges we’re helping our partners navigate every day. And what we’re learning is reshaping not just how books are produced, but what’s possible in academic book publishing.


1. How Academic Book Publishers Are Approaching AI

Academic book publishers are entering the AI era with an attitude I’d characterize as cautious optimism, genuinely curious about the technology’s potential, yet deeply aware of their responsibility to maintain the trust, rigor, and quality that define scholarly publishing.

This caution isn’t resistance or technophobia. It reflects appropriate stewardship of brands built over decades, sometimes centuries. University presses and scholarly imprints understand that their reputation depends on editorial excellence, subject matter expertise, and careful curation. They can’t afford to compromise these qualities in pursuit of efficiency alone.

Yet the optimism is equally real. Publishers recognize that current workflows, often inherited from print-era assumptions, create genuine pain points: extended production timelines that frustrate authors, limited accessibility that restricts readership, unsustainable cost structures that threaten long-term viability, and difficulty adapting content across formats and platforms.

AI offers potential solutions to these challenges. For many publishers, it’s no longer a theoretical tool on the horizon, it’s a practical ally already helping streamline complex production workflows while preserving the human judgment that defines scholarly publishing.

The Emerging Mindset

Through conversations with dozens of academic book publishers over the past year, I’ve observed several consistent themes in how they’re conceptualizing AI’s role:

AI as an accelerator

Publishers are strategically deploying AI for tasks that are time-consuming but relatively routine: copyediting for grammar and consistency, reference validation and formatting, citation checking, quality control for common errors, and preliminary accessibility reviews.

These applications demonstrably speed up production cycles without compromising standards, in some cases improving consistency beyond what’s achievable through purely manual processes. The time saved gets redirected to higher-value activities: substantive editing, author collaboration, market positioning, and strategic development.

AI as an enhancer

Tools that enrich metadata, improve discoverability, and automate XML tagging are rapidly becoming essential infrastructure for modern academic publishing.

Consider metadata: comprehensive, accurate metadata determines whether scholars can discover your content through library systems, search engines, and discovery platforms. Manual metadata creation is tedious and often incomplete. AI-assisted metadata generation, with appropriate human review, can dramatically improve both completeness and consistency.

Similarly, automated XML tagging transforms content from static print-oriented formats into structured, semantic documents that can be adapted, searched, analyzed, and repurposed. This capability is increasingly essential for compliance with open science mandates, accessibility requirements, and multi-platform delivery expectations.

AI as an enabler of accessibility and adaptation

In author-facing and reader-facing applications, AI assists in creating adaptive digital versions that respond to different reading contexts and user needs. It generates preliminary alt-text descriptions for images and figures. It ensures accessibility compliance is built in from the start rather than retrofitted expensively later.

This dimension of AI use isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about expanding access to knowledge, which sits at the heart of academic publishing’s mission.

Clarity of Purpose

Through all these applications, AI’s true role is becoming clearer: it’s not here to replace editorial craftsmanship, but to extend it.

The best implementations I’ve seen don’t position AI as a substitute for human expertise. Instead, they use AI to handle scalable, pattern-based tasks, freeing human editors, designers, and production specialists to focus on work requiring judgment, creativity, subject matter expertise, and cultural sensitivity.

This philosophy, augmentation rather than replacement, is the foundation of sustainable AI integration in academic book publishing.


2. The Workflow Shift: From Linear to Intelligent

Traditional academic book publishing followed a fundamentally sequential model that would be familiar to publishers from the 1980s, or even the 1950s.

The process looked something like this: manuscript handover from author to publisher, followed by separate stages of developmental editing, copyediting, typesetting, author proofing, correction implementation, quality assurance, and final delivery for printing and distribution. Each step was distinct, often handled by separate teams or external vendors, with limited visibility across stages.

This model had virtues, clear handoffs, specialized expertise at each stage, proven processes. But it also had significant limitations: long cycle times, limited flexibility, difficulty incorporating changes late in the process, siloed information, and sequential bottlenecks where delays at one stage cascaded through the entire timeline.

AI and digital-first production models are fundamentally collapsing these silos and reimagining what’s possible.

The Most Significant Changes

Based on our work with leading academic presses, here are the transformative shifts I’m observing:

XML-First Production Architecture

Publishers are moving decisively, sometimes urgently, toward XML-first workflows using standards like BITS 2.0 (Book Interchange Tag Suite).

This isn’t merely a technical preference. XML-first production fundamentally changes the publishing paradigm. Instead of creating a print-optimized PDF as the “master” format from which other versions are derived with varying levels of fidelity, XML becomes the source of truth, a structured, semantic representation of content from which all output formats can be reliably generated.

The advantages are substantial:

  • Format flexibility: Generate print PDFs, reflowable EPUBs, accessible HTML, and specialized outputs from a single source
  • Content reusability: Extract sections, chapters, or elements for anthology collections, course packs, or digital platforms
  • Future-proofing: As new formats and platforms emerge, structured content can be adapted without returning to original files
  • Accessibility foundation: Semantic structure is the prerequisite for meaningful accessibility, screen readers need properly tagged headings, lists, tables, and figures to convey content effectively
  • Analytics capability: Structured content enables sophisticated usage analysis and research applications

The shift to XML-first requires initial investment, in systems, training, and process redesign, but the long-term benefits in flexibility, efficiency, and capability are compelling.

Integrated Collaborative Access

Modern platforms now enable authors, proofreaders, and editors to work simultaneously within shared environments, reviewing content and tracking changes in real time.

This might sound unremarkable, we’ve had collaborative document editing in consumer applications for years—but implementing it effectively in scholarly book production is more complex than enabling multiple users to edit a shared file.

Consider the requirements: version control that tracks hundreds of changes across multiple stages and reviewers, role-based permissions that control who can view, comment, or edit different sections, integration with editorial management systems and production workflows, preservation of author authority over content while enabling editorial suggestions, and audit trails for quality assurance and process optimization.

When implemented well, integrated collaborative access produces remarkable benefits:

  • Reduced cycle times: Instead of sequential review rounds that add weeks to schedules, parallel review reduces timeline dramatically
  • Fewer errors: When authors see production decisions in context, they provide better feedback and catch issues earlier
  • Greater transparency: Publishers gain real-time visibility into project status rather than waiting for weekly updates
  • Improved author experience: Authors appreciate seeing their work progress and being engaged in the process rather than experiencing production as a black box

Automated Quality and Consistency Checks

AI-driven validation tools can now identify potential issues before human quality assurance begins: reference mismatches where citations don’t align with the bibliography, figure placement errors where callouts don’t match figure locations, missing permissions documentation for quoted or reproduced material, inconsistent terminology or formatting across chapters, and accessibility issues like missing alt-text or improper heading hierarchy.

The value isn’t eliminating human QA, it’s focusing human attention where it matters most. Instead of spending hours manually checking reference formatting, QA specialists can focus on substantive issues: whether arguments are clearly presented, whether figures effectively communicate their intended message, whether specialized terminology is used consistently and correctly.

This shifts quality control from primarily error detection to quality enhancement, a subtle but significant change in how we think about production excellence.

Accessibility by Design

With the European Accessibility Act (EAA) implementation approaching and similar mandates emerging globally, forward-thinking publishers are embedding accessibility considerations at the earliest stages of the production process rather than treating it as a final compliance check.

AI-supported tools contribute significantly:

  • Alt-text generation: Providing preliminary descriptions of images, charts, and diagrams that human editors refine for accuracy and relevance
  • Color contrast checking: Automatically flagging combinations that don’t meet WCAG standards for users with vision impairments
  • Semantic structure validation: Ensuring proper heading hierarchy, list markup, and table structure for screen reader navigation
  • Reading order verification: Confirming that content flows logically for non-visual consumption
  • Plain language suggestions: Identifying unnecessarily complex sentences that could be simplified for broader comprehension

The goal isn’t perfect automation, it’s making accessibility achievable at scale. Publishers who once found comprehensive accessibility economically prohibitive can now build it into standard workflows.

This shift from remediation to prevention fundamentally changes the economics and feasibility of accessible publishing.

Data-Driven Publishing Intelligence

Beyond production mechanics, AI supports better strategic and operational decisions through sophisticated analysis of publishing data.

Publishers are using AI-enhanced analytics to:

  • Predict project timelines based on manuscript characteristics, author responsiveness patterns, and historical data
  • Estimate cost impacts of different production choices, format options, or customization requests
  • Analyze series performance to identify which titles over-perform or under-perform expectations
  • Understand market adoption trends by examining usage patterns, citation data, and discovery paths
  • Optimize resource allocation by identifying bottlenecks and capacity constraints across workflows

This intelligence enables more sophisticated publishing strategies, moving from intuition-based decisions to evidence-informed choices about what to publish, how to produce it, how to price it, and how to market it effectively.

The Integrated Ecosystem

Taken together, these changes represent a fundamental transformation: academic publishers are moving from linear, sequential workflows to intelligent, integrated ecosystems where information flows continuously, processes adapt dynamically, and human expertise focuses on high-value judgments rather than routine tasks.

This isn’t just faster production, it’s qualitatively different publishing.


3. How Integra Is Partnering with Academic Book Publishers

At Integra, we’ve been privileged to work with many of the world’s leading academic and university presses—from century-old institutions to innovative digital-first publishers, from large commercial houses to specialized scholarly societies.

What we’ve learned through these partnerships is that every publisher is ready to modernize, the pain points are too acute and the opportunities too compelling to ignore, but each is at a different stage of the transformation journey, with different priorities, constraints, and organizational contexts.

Our role isn’t to impose a single prescribed model or insist that “this is how modern publishing must work.” Instead, we meet publishers where they are, understand their specific needs and challenges, and design solutions that move them forward from their current state to their desired future state, at a pace that’s sustainable for their organization.

Let me describe the key dimensions of how we partner with academic book publishers:

End-to-End Production Workflows

We support partners with comprehensive academic book production services that span the entire lifecycle, from initial manuscript submission and editorial management through typesetting, XML conversion, quality assurance, and final delivery.

The scope varies based on publisher needs. Some partners engage us for complete production management, where we handle every stage and coordinate all activities. Others selectively engage us for specific phases, perhaps XML conversion and accessibility enhancement while managing other stages internally.

Flexibility is essential. Publishers have built expertise, established vendor relationships, and internal capabilities they want to preserve. Our systems are designed to integrate with these existing resources rather than requiring wholesale replacement.

Multi-format delivery capability

A distinguishing aspect of our approach is delivering both print-optimized PDFs and fully structured XML (BITS 2.0 compliant) outputs as standard, not as premium additions.

This dual delivery ensures content is ready for both traditional distribution channels and digital transformation initiatives. Publishers can serve current markets while building capability for future opportunities.

The XML we deliver isn’t merely “valid”—it’s semantically rich, properly structured for accessibility, enhanced with comprehensive metadata, and designed for long-term preservation and reuse.

XML-First and AI-Enabled Production Systems

Integra’s XML-first production ecosystem represents years of investment in infrastructure, tools, and expertise.

Our platform integrates seamlessly with publisher systems or vendor platforms—enabling direct access for authors and proofreaders, automated formatting through intelligent templates, continuous version control that tracks all changes, and real-time status visibility for publishers.

AI-enhanced quality assurance

Within these workflows, we’ve embedded AI-enhanced quality checks that run continuously rather than as separate batch processes:

  • Reference and citation validation: Checking that bibliographic entries match in-text citations, formatting follows style guidelines, and external identifiers (DOIs, PMIDs) resolve correctly
  • Image and table quality control: Verifying resolution requirements, color space specifications, file format standards, and proper placement relative to callouts
  • Metadata extraction and enrichment: Automatically identifying and tagging subject terms, key concepts, author affiliations, funding information, and other discovery-critical elements
  • Alt-text and accessibility optimization: Generating preliminary descriptions, checking semantic structure, validating reading order, and flagging potential barriers

Human-in-the-loop architecture

Crucially—and this principle guides all our AI implementations—every AI output is reviewed by experienced human editors before being finalized.

AI provides initial recommendations, flags potential issues, and handles pattern-matching tasks. Human editors bring subject matter understanding, cultural context, judgment about edge cases, and accountability for final decisions.

This combination consistently outperforms either AI alone (which lacks nuanced understanding) or manual processes alone (which struggle with scale and consistency). The hybrid model leverages the strengths of both while mitigating their respective limitations.

Workflow Integration and Scalability

Our systems are architected for integration rather than isolation—connecting with:

  • Author dashboards where writers track progress, review proofs, and communicate with editors
  • Editorial management systems that coordinate review, approval, and scheduling
  • Content management platforms that store, organize, and deliver published content
  • Publishing ERPs that manage contracts, royalties, and financial data
  • Distribution systems that deliver content to retailers, libraries, and aggregators

This integration is technically complex but operationally essential. Publishers can’t afford isolated systems that require manual data transfer, duplicate entry, or reconciliation between platforms.

Achieving scalability

The combination of automation, integration, and process optimization enables genuine scalability—managing hundreds of titles in parallel while maintaining visibility, consistency, and reliable on-time delivery.

Scalability isn’t just about volume—it’s about consistent quality at volume. Publishers need confidence that their 200th title in a year receives the same rigorous attention as their first.

Our workflow design, quality systems, and experienced team make this scalability achievable without compromising the standards that define academic publishing excellence.

The Human Element

Even as we embrace automation and invest heavily in AI capabilities, we remain anchored in one fundamental belief: publishing is a human enterprise.

Books carry ideas that challenge assumptions, advance knowledge, shape culture, and change lives. They represent years of authors’ intellectual work, expertise, and passion. They deserve production approaches that honor that significance.

Every AI workflow we build is complemented by expert editors who understand scholarly communication, project managers who navigate complexity with judgment and empathy, technologists who solve problems creatively rather than applying rote solutions, and quality specialists who care deeply about getting details right.

These people—not the technology they use—are what make partnerships successful and transformations sustainable.


4. Lessons from the Transition Floor

Every transition project teaches us something valuable—not just about technology and processes, but about how organizations and people navigate change.

I’ve had the privilege of supporting dozens of publishers through major workflow transformations over the past two decades. Here are the insights that have proven most valuable:

AI Works Best When Guided by Experience

Automation without appropriate context leads to errors—sometimes subtle, sometimes egregious, but always problematic.

An AI tool might “correct” specialized terminology because it doesn’t appear in general dictionaries, not recognizing it’s discipline-specific jargon that scholars expect. It might flag mathematically correct notation as errors because it doesn’t understand the conventions of that field. It might suggest changes that technically conform to style guides but violate author voice or meaning.

Human editors with subject matter expertise and publishing experience provide the essential context that keeps automation accurate and appropriate. They’re the compass that ensures efficiency doesn’t come at the cost of quality.

This is why our model always includes experienced editors reviewing AI outputs—not as a compliance checkbox, but as an essential component of reliable production.

XML Is Not Just a Format—It’s a Foundation

When publishers first encounter XML-first workflows, they sometimes see it as a technical format choice—one option among others for structuring content.

That misses the larger significance. XML is the foundation that enables virtually every modern publishing capability:

  • Accessibility requires semantic structure
  • Multi-format delivery requires separating content from presentation
  • Content reuse requires well-defined elements and relationships
  • Discovery and analytics require machine-readable metadata
  • Long-term preservation requires format-independent encoding
  • Future adaptability requires technology-neutral representation

Publishers who invest in robust XML infrastructure gain strategic flexibility. Those who continue with format-specific, presentation-oriented approaches increasingly find themselves constrained by technical limitations and rising costs to maintain legacy systems.

XML adoption is challenging—it requires changes to tools, processes, and skills—but it’s increasingly non-optional for publishers serious about sustainable long-term strategies.

Collaboration Is the New Quality Control

The shift from sequential, siloed workflows to integrated collaborative environments fundamentally changes how quality is assured.

In traditional sequential models, quality control happened primarily through formal review stages—someone catches errors during copyediting, someone else during proofreading, yet another person during final quality assurance. Each stage required complete review because there was limited visibility into what previous stages had accomplished.

In collaborative workflows, quality emerges continuously. Authors see production decisions as they’re made and provide immediate feedback. Editors see author concerns and adjust approaches in real time. Project managers see bottlenecks forming and intervene proactively.

This visibility dramatically reduces downstream revisions—the most expensive and timeline-damaging problems in publishing. When everyone can see what’s happening, issues surface early when they’re easiest and least expensive to address.

Publishers who embrace this transparency consistently deliver higher quality on faster timelines than those clinging to sequential black-box processes.

Accessibility Is a Mindset, Not a Checklist

Publishers sometimes approach accessibility as compliance—a list of requirements to check off to meet regulatory mandates or procurement specifications.

This mindset leads to minimal compliance: doing just enough to pass audits without genuine commitment to inclusive design.

In contrast, publishers who embed accessibility as a fundamental design principle—considering it from the earliest stages of production—discover something remarkable: accessibility features benefit all readers, not just those with disabilities.

Clear semantic structure helps everyone navigate complex content. Alternative text descriptions help readers understand figures even when images don’t load. Logical reading order benefits anyone consuming content on mobile devices. Plain language explanations make specialized content more approachable for interdisciplinary readers.

Accessibility, when built into design rather than bolted on at the end, elevates the reading experience universally. It’s not a burden—it’s an enhancement that expands markets and strengthens brands.

Transition Equals Trust

Here’s something that took me years to fully appreciate: publishers remember not just what you delivered, but how you partnered during change.

Transitions are stressful. They involve uncertainty, learning curves, temporary disruption, and vulnerability. Publishers are trusting partners with content that represents significant investment and carries their brand reputation.

How partners behave during transitions matters enormously:

  • Do they communicate proactively or reactively?
  • Do they take responsibility for problems or point fingers?
  • Do they customize approaches or force standardization?
  • Do they invest in training and support or expect publishers to figure things out?
  • Do they maintain quality during disruption or let standards slip temporarily?

These behaviors build or erode trust that determines whether partnerships deepen or terminate after initial contracts.

At Integra, we’ve worked to build reputation not just for technical capability but for being a partner publishers trust during their most challenging transformations. That trust is hard-won and easily lost—it requires consistent demonstration through actions, not just promises.


5. From Workflow Disruption to Direction

AI is undeniably reshaping academic book publishing—the question isn’t whether transformation is happening, but what direction that transformation takes.

And here’s the crucial insight: the direction we take is a choice, not an inevitability determined by technology.

We can chase efficiency as an end in itself—seeking ever-faster production, ever-lower costs, ever-greater automation. That path leads to commodification, where books become undifferentiated products, quality becomes negotiable, and publishing brands lose distinctive value.

Or we can build systems that are efficient, yes, but also ethical in their treatment of author rights and content integrity, and empathetic in their understanding of what scholars need throughout the publishing process.

What Truly Matters

For me, this transformation isn’t primarily about producing books faster, though that’s a welcome outcome.

It’s about enabling publishers to focus resources and attention on what truly matters: helping authors share ideas that inform, challenge, and inspire.

Consider what publishers could do with time freed from routine production tasks:

  • More substantive developmental editing that strengthens arguments and clarifies communication
  • Better author support throughout the research and writing process
  • More sophisticated market development and audience engagement
  • Stronger commitment to discovering and cultivating new voices
  • Greater investment in experimental formats and innovative dissemination
  • Deeper partnerships with libraries, researchers, and institutions

This is the opportunity AI creates—not replacing what humans do best, but freeing them to do more of it.

Our Mission

At Integra, we see our mission as turning this vision into tangible, repeatable, and scalable workflow reality—one project, one partnership, and one book at a time.

We’re not trying to revolutionize publishing overnight or impose a single model for how all publishers should work. We’re helping individual publishers take achievable steps forward from wherever they currently are toward wherever they aspire to be.

Sometimes that’s implementing XML-first workflows for the first time. Sometimes it’s enhancing existing systems with AI capabilities. Sometimes it’s scaling successful pilots across larger catalogs. Sometimes it’s navigating complex transitions from legacy vendors to modern platforms.

Each situation is unique, but the underlying commitment is consistent: delivering excellence through the thoughtful integration of technology, expertise, and process design.


6. The Path Forward

As I look ahead at academic book publishing over the next five years, I see both extraordinary opportunities and significant challenges.

The Opportunities

Accessibility at scale: For the first time, comprehensive accessibility is economically feasible for all publishers, not just the largest and best-resourced. This will expand readership and fulfill publishing’s fundamental mission of disseminating knowledge broadly.

Multi-format fluency: XML-first workflows enable publishers to serve content effectively across print, digital, mobile, and emerging platforms without maintaining separate production processes for each.

Enhanced discoverability: Structured content with rich metadata ensures that scholars can find relevant books more easily—addressing the “discoverability crisis” that undermines the value of publishing in an era of information abundance.

Sustainable economics: Automation of routine tasks combined with scalable workflows makes book publishing viable at smaller print runs and more specialized topics—preserving scholarly communication in niche fields that might otherwise become economically unsustainable.

Global reach: AI-assisted translation, localization, and cultural adaptation can make scholarly knowledge accessible across languages and contexts more readily than ever before.

The Challenges

Skills evolution: Publishers need teams with new capabilities—XML expertise, AI literacy, data analysis skills, accessibility knowledge, and digital product management. Building these capabilities requires sustained investment in training and recruitment.

Technology integration: Publishers operate complex technology ecosystems assembled over years. Integrating new AI capabilities without disrupting existing operations requires careful planning and sophisticated technical architecture.

Maintaining quality: As automation increases, publishers must ensure that efficiency gains don’t come at the cost of the editorial excellence that defines their brands. This requires robust quality frameworks and strong editorial leadership.

Author adaptation: Scholars accustomed to traditional publishing processes need support adapting to new workflows—learning new tools, understanding new possibilities, and adjusting expectations about timelines and formats.

Economic transition: Moving to new production models often requires upfront investment before benefits materialize. Publishers must manage this transition financially while maintaining current operations.

Success Factors

The publishers who will thrive through this transformation share certain characteristics:

Strategic clarity: They know why they’re adopting new approaches—not because everyone else is, but because specific capabilities support specific goals.

Organizational commitment: Leadership champions change, resources support implementation, and culture embraces experimentation and learning.

Partner selection: They choose partners based on alignment of values, depth of expertise, and track record of successful implementations—not just competitive pricing.

Measured implementation: They pilot new approaches, measure results rigorously, learn from experience, and scale what works while adjusting what doesn’t.

Human investment: They recognize that technology without skilled, confident people yields limited returns, so they invest in training, support, and organizational development alongside technical implementation.


7. A Personal Reflection

I’ve been working in publishing production for over twenty years—long enough to have witnessed multiple waves of technological change that were going to “revolutionize” the industry.

Some delivered on their promises. Many didn’t. Most fell somewhere in between—creating real value for publishers who implemented thoughtfully while disappointing those who expected technology alone to solve organizational or strategic challenges.

What I’ve learned is that technology is never the complete answer. It’s always a tool that amplifies human capability, judgment, and intention.

The AI transformation we’re experiencing now is powerful—perhaps more powerful than previous waves. But it will ultimately succeed or fail based on how thoughtfully we deploy it, how well we integrate it with human expertise, and whether we remain anchored to the fundamental purposes that make academic publishing valuable.

When I work with publishers navigating these changes, my goal isn’t just delivering efficient workflows—though that matters. It’s helping them preserve and enhance what makes their publishing program distinctive while building capability for an uncertain future.

That’s the balance we’re all seeking: honoring the past while building the future, embracing efficiency while maintaining quality, adopting technology while centering human judgment.


About the Author

Sureshkumar Parandhaman is Vice President – Publishing Solutions & Transitions at Integra. He works closely with global publishers to design efficient, AI-enabled, and scalable workflows for both scholarly journals and academic books. With over two decades of publishing experience spanning editorial, production, and technology domains, Suresh is passionate about helping publishers navigate complex transformations with confidence—combining technological innovation, operational excellence, and deep empathy for the human dimensions of change. He believes that the future of scholarly publishing will be defined not by technology alone, but by how thoughtfully we integrate new capabilities with enduring values.

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