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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It is digital but the fixing process is broken. All input needs to be edited before it is published and the editing is an independent effort based on what needs to be fixed. It is like software where the programmers never used a common checkin or built from a single source. What the publishers end up with is an assortment of all the fixes that are then spliced together to make the final book. The have digital copies but probably many of them from different machines and they are never merged back together.
Dale
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C'mon Dale,
Everyone here at MobileRead is an adult! We can *handle* the truth! It's a well-researched - but highly-guarded - secret that ebooks are the result of inter-format mating between hardcovers and paperbacks! Yes, late at night, when the guards roaming the fulfillment and distribution stacks have become tired and distracted, the HCs and MMPBs sneak out of their bins/cells to have wild orgies of ebook procreation! (How else does one rationally explain the formation of the Wheel of Time series???
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Derek