Insiders at Palgrave Macmillian, the academic publishing division of the Holtzbrinck empire, say that the company may shift some of its outsourced production work to Macmillan India Ltd., which opened a new typesetting facility in Bangalore in April. According to a brief dispatch in the Deccan Herald, Macmillian’s new facility is 23,000 square feet and will eventually employ more than 500. Executives at Palgrave have visited the new facility, which will be directed from Palgrave’s UK office. Many of Palgrave’s academic titles are outsourced to Indian “packagers,” who edit and prepare manuscripts for publication, a common practice among British and American academic publishers. The Macmillian expansion may bring some of this work back in house and is expected to generate $4 million in revenue by 2006.