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elcreative · 10-13-2011, 07:59 PM

And, as has been discussed many times in other threads, where do these backlist books magically appear from... most of them either predate electronic files or were only kept in print controlling electronic files... at least the files used to print need redoing for ebook format and at worst, it's a scan, OCR and proof job... these things take time, cost money and need people capable of doing the work... overall the pubs are getting backlist stuff into eformat but everything isn't going to suddenly materialise over night... or even over some years to come...

10-13-2011, 07:59 PM	#2
elcreative Wizard Posts: 2,888 Karma: 5875940 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc	And, as has been discussed many times in other threads, where do these backlist books magically appear from... most of them either predate electronic files or were only kept in print controlling electronic files... at least the files used to print need redoing for ebook format and at worst, it's a scan, OCR and proof job... these things take time, cost money and need people capable of doing the work... overall the pubs are getting backlist stuff into eformat but everything isn't going to suddenly materialise over night... or even over some years to come...