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Content Factory — textbook writing by board and curriculum

Textbook writing is priced per page, which hides the fact that the work is not the same from one board to the next. The syllabus authority differs, the examination pattern differs, the medium of instruction differs, and the way a title gets adopted differs entirely. These pages set out, board by board, what actually changes — and what Content Factory does about it.

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What you receive

The handover

Finished files

Production-ready output in the format your printer, platform or workshop actually needs — press PDF, editable source, CAD file, font binary or deck, as the work requires.

Editable sources

The working files, not just the export, so your team can change the work later without coming back to us.

Full rights

Copyright transfers to you on final payment. Nothing we make for you is resold or reused elsewhere.

Two revision rounds

Included in the quoted price. Corrections are logged against the draft rather than argued over on a call.

How it works

Five steps, and you approve the first three

01 · Brief

You tell us what the finished thing has to do, and send whatever material you already have.

02 · Scope & price

A written scope, a fixed figure and a delivery date, usually within one working day.

03 · Structure

You sign off the architecture before production starts, so nothing large is built on a wrong assumption.

04 · Production

Work arrives in stages as it finishes, not all at the end, with two revision rounds included.

05 · Handover

Files, sources and rights in your hands, and the invoice closed.

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Often commissioned together

In detail

Textbook writing services — how we produce it

Typical extent is 180 to 320 pages with 40 to 120 figures. A single title runs eight to fourteen weeks; a ten-title multi-grade programme runs six to nine months and is staged by grade block, so the first books are in your hands while later grades are still in draft.

Because writers, translators, designers, draughtspeople and typesetters sit in the same building in Chennai, this can be commissioned together with everything around it: translation into any of a hundred-plus languages, the figures and illustrations, the typesetting, the presentation and the production files. One schedule, one point of contact, one invoice.

Pricing is quoted in US dollars and fixed in writing before work starts. Fifty per cent is payable in advance and the balance on delivery, with long projects staged so neither side carries the whole risk. Two revision rounds are included, and copyright transfers to you in full on final payment, together with the editable source files.

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Send the syllabus document, the class and the subject. Content Factory replies with a chapter plan outline and a fixed price, usually within one working day.

Choose your board

40 boards and curricula, each with its own page

Curriculum is national, and in India it is also provincial. A title written to CBSE does not serve ICSE; a Rajasthan Board manuscript does not serve Maharashtra; and neither serves AQA in the United Kingdom or TEKS in Texas. Each page below names the syllabus authority, the medium of instruction, the assessment pattern, how a title is actually adopted, and the one production problem that board creates.

By publishing centre

Textbook writing for publishers, by city

The board decides the content; the city decides the trade around it. Daryaganj in Delhi sells nationally, so a title has to work in eleven states at once. College Street in Kolkata is a Bengali-medium market in its own right. Bengaluru commissions arrive as digital courseware more often than print. These pages set out the publishing cluster, the boards served, the print and distribution route and the language editions for each centre.

At a glance

Syllabus authority and medium of instruction

Board or curriculum Syllabus authority Primary medium
CBSECentral Board of Secondary EducationEnglish and Hindi
ICSE and ISCCouncil for the Indian School Certificate ExaminationsEnglish as the medium throughout
RBSE RajasthanRajasthan Board of Secondary EducationHindi as the primary medium
UP BoardUttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha ParishadHindi predominantly
Maharashtra State BoardMaharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary EducationMarathi and English
Tamil Nadu Samacheer KalviTamil Nadu State Council of Educational Research and TrainingTamil and English as equal media
Andhra Pradesh and TelanganaSCERT Andhra Pradesh and SCERT TelanganaTelugu and English
Karnataka State BoardKarnataka Secondary Education Examination BoardKannada and English
Kerala State BoardSCERT KeralaMalayalam and English
West Bengal BoardWest Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the Council of Higher Secondary EducationBengali and English
GSEB GujaratGujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education BoardGujarati and English
Bihar BoardBihar School Examination BoardHindi predominantly
Madhya Pradesh and ChhattisgarhMP Board of Secondary Education and the Chhattisgarh BoardHindi predominantly
Punjab and HaryanaPunjab School Education Board and the Board of School Education HaryanaPunjabi in Gurmukhi script for Punjab
Odisha BoardBoard of Secondary Education Odisha and the Council of Higher Secondary EducationOdia and English
Assam and the North EastSEBA Assam and the state boards of the North Eastern statesAssamese
Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal and UttarakhandJKBOSEUrdu
NCERT and national curriculumNational Council of Educational Research and TrainingEnglish
International BaccalaureateInternational Baccalaureate OrganizationEnglish
Cambridge InternationalCambridge Assessment International EducationEnglish
UK National Curriculum, GCSE and A LevelDepartment for EducationEnglish
US Common Core and state standardsCommon CoreEnglish and Spanish
UAE Ministry of Education and KHDAUAE Ministry of EducationArabic and English
Saudi Ministry of EducationSaudi Ministry of EducationArabic as the medium of instruction
South Africa CAPS and East AfricaCAPS curriculum in South AfricaEnglish

If your board is not listed, send the syllabus document anyway. Content Factory works from whatever specification governs the title, and will tell you what that one requires before quoting.

In detail

Why the board matters more than the city

A publisher in Jaipur and a publisher in Jodhpur need the same book, because both are writing to RBSE and the RSCERT syllabus. A publisher in Jaipur and one in Pune need entirely different books, because the syllabus, the examination pattern, the medium of instruction and the approval process are all different. The board is the real variable, and it is what Content Factory organises this work around.

That extends beyond content. Tamil conjuncts need a font with proper OpenType shaping. Telugu vowel signs stack and clip at ordinary line height. Gujarati has no headstroke, so a Devanagari substitute looks wrong. Arabic mirrors the whole layout including diagram reading order. Urdu needs Nastaliq, which most Arabic fonts render incorrectly. None of that is visible in a page count, and all of it decides whether the files can go to press.

Content Factory writes, translates, typesets and illustrates from one building in Chennai, so these are resolved once at the chapter-architecture stage rather than argued about at proof. Every commission is priced as a fixed figure agreed in writing before drafting begins, an NDA is signed before you send anything, nothing carries our name, and copyright transfers to you entirely on final payment.

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Questions

Before you commission

How much does textbook writing services cost?

Prices are fixed in writing before work begins. Scope, language count and turnaround move the figure; volume across a programme brings it down. Send the brief and you have a number within a working day.

How long does it take?

Most single deliverables run three to fourteen weeks depending on length and complexity. Programmes are staged so early parts reach you while later parts are still in production. You get a date with the quote.

Who does the work?

A specialist from our school & college course books team, with an editor and a production person on the same project. Everyone is bound by the same confidentiality terms.

Do I own the result?

Yes. Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production-ready files on final payment. Nothing is resold or reused.

Can it be produced in other languages?

Yes — any of a hundred-plus languages, typeset in the same studio so layout and page numbers match across editions.

Do you work with clients outside India?

Yes. Publishers, institutions and founders in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and Japan. Work is delivered by email and shared drive and quoted in US dollars.

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Confidentiality

NDA before anything is sent

Most of our work carries the client’s name, not ours.

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The agency

Fifteen years in production

Writers, translators, designers and typesetters on the same project, in the same building.

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Approvals

You sign off before we build

Structure agreed before production starts, so nothing large rests on an unchecked assumption.

The Content Factory floor in Chennai
Scale

Seven countries, a hundred cities

Delivered by email and shared drive, quoted in US dollars, scheduled against your time zone.

Colleagues reviewing translated work together
Languages

A hundred-plus languages

Translation and typesetting in one studio, so layout matches across editions.

The team in discussion in the studio lounge
Rights

You own everything

Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production files on final payment.

By kind of book

Not every educational title is a textbook

A workbook is not a textbook with the explanations removed, and a guide is not a shortened one. Each is written for a different reader doing a different thing — a child turning a page, a student a week before an examination, a teacher planning tomorrow’s lesson at eight in the evening. These can be commissioned on their own, whether or not Content Factory wrote the main title.

Send a brief

Tell us what you need made

Send the brief and we reply with a scope, a fixed price and a date — usually within one working day. Whole programmes are quoted the same way as single titles.

A written scope, fixed price and date, usually within one working day.
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