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Steven Lyle Jordan · 10-14-2010, 07:08 AM

Remember, until fairly recently few pubs kept their digital files after printing... they just deleted them. So, apparently, did many authors. So it's not a surprise that HC didn't have a digital file, and I woudn't be surprised if McDevitt didn't either. (Edit: I also wouldn't be surprised if he did have a digital file, but the publisher never asked him for it.)

I hope he has a contract with his publisher that gives him some say in acceptable quality, but I don't know. I'm not sure most American authors have any say in production and delivery once the book is handed over, and the ebook process is so new to them that I suspect they're all feeling their way through it.

10-14-2010, 07:08 AM	#17
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Remember, until fairly recently few pubs kept their digital files after printing... they just deleted them. So, apparently, did many authors. So it's not a surprise that HC didn't have a digital file, and I woudn't be surprised if McDevitt didn't either. (Edit: I also wouldn't be surprised if he did have a digital file, but the publisher never asked him for it.) I hope he has a contract with his publisher that gives him some say in acceptable quality, but I don't know. I'm not sure most American authors have any say in production and delivery once the book is handed over, and the ebook process is so new to them that I suspect they're all feeling their way through it. Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 10-14-2010 at 08:43 AM.