Nord Compo is a 53-year-old, 550+ person company, headquartered in France, with a dedicated production center in Madagascar. We supply a wide variety of high quality prepress, digital, design and audiobook services to book publishers worldwide. Our strengths include: high quality; very fast turnaround times; superb customer service; highly competitive pricing.
SERVICES
- Composition: books of all types and genres.
- Editorial: proofreading, copyediting, indexing, and translations in most European languages that use Latin-based script.
- Digital: stand-alone ebook files + enhanced epubs; readalong versions of children’s picture books, which are fixed layout epub3 files with an embedded, professionally narrated audiobook track, with word-by-word highlighting; Recovery of OP books through scanning, OCR and working with older file formats, such as Quark.
- Design: covers + interior layout upon request.
- Audio: audiobooks, podcasts and other audio products, such as transcribing audio versions of sermons into WORD docs, available in most languages.
- Nordsoft: custom and turnkey solutions for automated and semi-automated prepress processes, mainly for high volume publishers.
ACCESSIBILITY and SUSTAINABLE TYPESETTING
- Accessible reflowable epubs that meet the WCAG 2.0 AA standard mandated by the European Accessibility Act (June 2025) and the ADA Title II updated regulations for digital products (April 2026).
- Sustainable typesetting- using a combination of fonts, spacing, leading, etc. to reduce page count while maintaining or increasing readability- saves on print costs and freight.
