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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Maybe, someday, a company will work out a way to take in a print book and directly convert it to an e-book for a reasonable price (and with due authorization from the original publisher--I'd bet the publisher would make them return or pulp the print book afterward!). Most likely, though, you'd be better off doing it yourself.
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I wish somebody would! I think a central operation for this would have efficiencies (being able to use one scan for multiple customers) that would make it an improvement over doing it yourself.
It would be nice if the publishers would also let the company sell ebooks outright after they'd scanned them-- with an appropriate cut to the publisher and author, of course. That could make the operation worthwhile from a business standpoint, as well as dramatically increasing the size of the ebook catalog and reducing the appeal of the darknet.