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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.
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It's mostly inertia, I expect: think about how they used to do it (and did for many long decades) before computers entered the scene. They'd have it
typeset, then printed, and because they needed the typesetting letters for the next project, they'd disassemble the typesetting. If they needed another edition, they'd re-typeset it.
I think that as a collective, the pubs are just
used to tossing the print
source once they make the final product.
As for storing the digital file, that doesn't have to be difficult, there are a fair number of version control schemes for such files that are already in existence that would work just fine -- if anyone in the industry got off the merry-go-round long enough to investigate it.
