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Originally Posted by karunaji
Not relevant because the final PostScript sent to a film printer was generated from the final electronic file.
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You missed the point. The important word was "process".
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Do you want to imply that big publishers are totally inept regarding the core of their business? Or that technological barrier between now and 15 years ago is too great?
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Typesetting the book is not the core of the business. And often that part is bought by the publisher from other companies. The core of the business is finding and developing new authors and selling all authors they publish.
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Does it mean that big companies are less efficient than small ones? That small publishing company I worked 15 years ago had put selected books into a database (Folio views) and was selling it.
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Well, it is not uncommon that big companies have processes that are hard to change and are inefficient.