These days, a lot of the business functions that were once done by companies as a matter of course are being heavily outsourced to contractors all over the world. Take the case of book publishers, for example. The major book publishers by and large do not even print books! Instead, many of them have resorted to use outsourced printers for this task so that they may better focus on marketing or on other unique strengths.  Business Process Outsourcing  has proven to be a major trend sweeping business today and it seems unavoidable that we will see more and more of this kind of outsourcing in the future.