Many of us have edited volumes of conference proceedings or other collected papers.  It can be a tough job keeping all the correspondence, sequence of tasks, and timetabling in order.  Now there is a software platform for supporting this kind of work in a structured manner, the Open Monograph Press.  It's free, open-source software produced by PKP, the same people who do the Open Journal System - the most widely used online journal system in the world. 

For more information on OMP, which is still in  beta, see the OMP website.  As far as I can see, OMP doesn't do typesetting.  But it aims to give a framework for most of the rest of the administration and communication involved in making a book, as well as offering an online shop-front for distribution and sales.

I'm grateful to Will Sweetman for bringing this to my attention.

Best,

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Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
University of Vienna,
Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria
and
Adjunct Professor,
Division of Health and Humanities,
St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
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