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Cost of Manual Work — Publishing
See what repetitive manual work is costing Publishing teams each year — where catalog management is split across acquisitions, editorial, production, and rights systems with inconsistent metadata — the same title has three different BISAC codes, two different ISBNs across formats, and incomplete territory rights that block international sales.
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What manual work costs you
Annual cost
₹6,60,000
People-weeks / year
33
Recoverable via automation
₹4,62,000
Payback
7.8 mo
What this means
Publishing teams lose 33 people-weeks a year to this work — about ₹6,60,000. Automating the routine ~70% recovers ₹4,62,000 a year.
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