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Originally Posted by igorsk
Apparently, it often gets lost once films/plates are made (those can be reused for reprints). And even if it's not lost it's most likely a PDF or Quark or PostScript file which are not exactly text extraction friendly.
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That's... bizarre. It's so much cheaper to keep around a complete digital version of something than a hardcopy version. Not to mention easier and safer.
No wonder most publishers aren't into ebooks, though, if they can't even deal with digitization internally.
DaleDe mentioned source control - that seems like it would actually be a really interesting system for ebook publishers. As long as you kept your book in a text-based markup system, not binary-based, you could actually use something like Perforce or SourceSafe, do merges, revision tracking, rollbacks, tell who modified what file when... Genius!
