I'd pay quite a bit, since most of my PDFs are scans of cut books that will never be offered in eBook form because the books are in Copyright Limbo.
Currently, I'm cutting my entire Deathlands collection -- over 60 books. I'd happily buy all the books over again for proper ePub formatting at a $5.99 MMP price (and I've sent Harlequin emails telling them so), but instead I find myself cutting, scanning, OCRing, and then correcting correcting correcting.
Alas, for a price of $5.99 per book, you'd be getting much less than minimum hourly wage -- I'd estimate it takes me at least 3 hours solid to fix OCR mistakes and correct the punctuation that is missed in the process.
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Originally Posted by elcreative
Cool, great idea... no common format for printers to use anymore, no more easy document work across multiple platforms and printing... hey, why not dump ASCII and .txt at the same time... PDF was NEVER intended to be an eReader format... it was designed for other purposes... I think that Ferraris should be banned because they don't work well at 1,000 metres down in the ocean...  |
I have one of those multi-function Ferraris that do, but it leaks like a sieve, I tell you. And I get
terrible gas mileage.
