Indian offshoring service providers have so far successfully exploited only this small slice of the entire publishing pie. Despite varying cost structures and process offshoreability across publishing segments, the offshore opportunity still lies anywhere between -15 b. With current revenues of Indian publishing offshoring at about half a billion dollars, there is potential to grow at least twenty times.
The above report is in valuenotes site.
http*://ww*w.valuenotes.*com/BPO/freebpo_06Aug08.asp?ArtCd=141793&Cat=F&Id=525
This shows that publishing BPO has an enormous opportunity waiting to be tapped.
Macmillan (the present listed company after demerger) is the publishing BPO unit of the old undivided company. Macmillan`s parent is the world leader in education and scientific book publications. So all in all Macmillan has a huge potential to grow rapidly in the coming years.