Intern, Custom Publications Team Summer 2025

About the internship

W. W. Norton is looking for interns to participate in our twelve-week internship program. Our internship program provides participants with an engaging, supportive, and hands-on learning experience in publishing that includes educational lunch sessions and networking within the intern class. Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Custom team may include the following:

• Contributing to the process of customizing textbooks and ebooks to be tailored to a specific class, department, or school’s need, while working with texts across a variety of different disciplines, both in print and digital.
• Learning the basics of copyediting and proofreading.
• Writing abstracts for reading selections in the Norton Custom Library, our print-on-demand branch.
• Helping assemble surveys, handouts, marketing materials, and similar materials useful to our customers.
• Helping monitor inventory and reprints.
• Testing Norton’s digital learning materials such as InQuizitive for Writers, They Say/I Say Blog, and the Everyone’s An Author Tumblr.
• Maintaining lists and databases of important information, including information related to ISBNs, metadata, and project status and tracking pertinent information as a project develops.
• Attending meetings to learn how our custom team collaborates closely with a host of teams at Norton and outside of Norton: book production, media producers, editors, customers, designers, fulfillment group, permissions group, vendors, travelers, professors, and bookstores.

  Why you’ll be a great fit

  • You are a college junior, senior, recent graduate, or someone looking to make a career change.
  • You are eager to improve your verbal and written communication skills.
  • You enjoy collaborating and working in a group to solve challenges.
  • You have a passion for learning and ideas.
  • You have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook).
  • You consider yourself a detail-oriented person.

  Internship details

  • Interns are paid $16.50 per hour, subject to applicable law, and work a maximum of 20 hours weekly.
  • Internship period is twelve weeks from 6/2/25-8/22/25.
  • Our workday is 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time; specific work hours are flexible to accommodate an intern’s schedule.
  • For interns who reside within commuting distance of the office, this internship will be in-person in our Manhattan offices; those in other locations will work remotely.
  • Eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.