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Originally Posted by elcreative
What a bunch of extremely clever people... how come you're not all producing perfectly proofed, edited and beautifully laid out books if it's so easy...  |
Publishers outsource the conversion - especially for back catalogs - to rather lazy folk that work for near minimum wage often. Batch scripts and paperback scans are part of the work, do you really think they're going to bother doing any proofing on formatting retention? ofc not, it's not like they'll ever hear feedback or suffer in any way.
If you're sitting and formatting a book in your own time, you can easily do a better job without trying. But for the 3 hours of work it'd cost somewhere around $120 per super simple novel... or $5 if they just don't and use bulk deals.
Don't really understand why you're trying to protect a bunch of bad practices, but I guess corporate greed needs someone to justify it
