Why Hire a Pro?

Professional Indexes:

• Enhance the value of a book by applying a more objective/critical assessment of the main concepts than the author can, who is so close to the subject
• Help sell books
• Facilitate decisions by booksellers and librarians whether to stock the book

Professional Indexers:

• Are experienced in identifying all of a manuscript’s core and specific concepts and know what terms and phrases readers will look up first
• Analyze your text to identify concepts and themes throughout and connects them to each other to highlight relationships the reader may not be aware of
• Provide information on specific topics the reader may not be aware of being discussed in the book
• Determine which concepts and themes are important and which are passing mention that need not be indexed
• Organize these concepts into a structure that guides the reader quickly and adequately to the sought text
• Provide multiple entry points (synonyms) and cross references

Electronic software (and artificial intelligence) search for terms and generate concordances rather than a high-quality index.