Insights
Practical writing on textbook production
Curriculum alignment and publishing operations in India — from the team that produces the books.
Twelve launch articles
In production
- 01What NCF 2023 actually changes about chapter sequencingThe sequencing decisions the framework makes for you, and the ones it leaves open.
- 02The eight handoffs between curriculum and classroomEvery point at which a title changes hands, and what each one costs in days.
- 03What a textbook actually costs to produce in IndiaComposition, editing, illustration and origination, priced line by line.
- 04Why Devanagari composition breaks automated layoutConjuncts, matras and justification — where automated output fails visibly.
- 05Page budgets, formes and signatures — a plain guideWhy a press prints sheets, not pages, and what three pages over budget costs.
- 06How to evidence NCF alignment to a schoolWhat an adoption committee will actually ask for, and how to hand it over.
- 07Bloom’s Taxonomy in exercise design, measuredTurning a cognitive-level distribution into something you can check per chapter.
- 08What general AI tools can and cannot do in book productionAn honest boundary between drafting assistance and a production line.
- 09Adoption windows: why an academic calendar is a hard deadlineThe dates a season turns on, and what missing one actually costs.
- 10Choosing between rebuilding an edition and writing a new titleA decision test based on what your existing content can still carry.
- 11A production checklist before a title goes to pressThe last-mile checks that stop a reprint.
- 12What changed in Indian school publishing between 2020 and 2026Policy, procurement and production, in one timeline.
Each of these is being written by the people who do the work rather than commissioned out. If one of them would be useful to your team sooner, write to authomate.ai@gmail.com and say which — we will send it when it is finished.