Comfort Indexing

We (not royal but figurative) write back-of-the-book indexes and have published more than 160 of them in the past five years. I was educated at UCB and Princeton and hold a PhD in history (economic). I have taught at the university level for nearly 10 years, am a published author, and have more than 20 years experience as a technology marketing executive. Given the major changes that have taken place in the publishing industry over the past few years, I believe that both indexers and the people who use their services need to be concerned about the MARKETING of those services. This site will focus on that need and will provide information about the industry as a whole, and about the companies, people, and business practices that compose it. For example, companies like Amazon are using indexes to sell books. Should that fact impact the manner in which indexes are composed, their cost, and their recognition? We will publish articles from other publications, notes about companies and people, and, most importantly, both my and your ideas and opinions. We hope you will join us in this service to our craft and to ourselves.