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Originally Posted by bingle
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!  |
Actually in industry we do keep manuals under source control However I do not believe any publishers do this or even know how or why they would want to.