Creative Cut - Draper's & Damon's (1,589 words)

A full-time color monitor marks up all the color proofs and goes to the press OK. Romano adds, "She has a mock dummy of the book so that if anything is questionable, she can make any in-line calls." Total turnaround is seven weeks, so they always have two books overlapping.

Just Getting to the 'Net

Considering its market segment, the Internet wasn't a number-one priority for Draper's & Damon's. Recently, it launched a new Internet site with 60 items "just to test it."