Outsourcing Specialized Publishing Jobs.

The article discusses a growing trend toward knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) by U.S. companies. ThomasNet hired Apex CoVantage, a Herndon, Virginia-based company specializing in KPO to India, to help expand its product offering and content coverage. Apex saw its Research and Content Solutions outsourcing business grow 45 percent between 2005 and 2006, according to Sayan Bhattacharjee, vice president of strategic sales and business development for the division. A research report by ValueNotes, an information resource to the investment and business community, found that the number of employees in publishing outsourcing will increase 5.6 times by 2010.