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I'll toss in a couple of my own observations from having assisted in assembling a book of poetry. It was a self published short run and the printer gave the gal a good price on it if she submitted the disk ready to run.
The book was assembled with Adobe something (Acrobat? Publisher?). If a letter was replaced or we did a cut and paste from one section to another what happened in the program is that it would stay in the original form but a code would be inserted that, in essence, said 'Instead of printing this here print it five lines down.'. What it really boiled down to is that the program was designed to give instructions to printing presses or some such, not computer screens.
If you called that program up today to make an ebook from it you would go buggy before you got half way through trying to correct the spelling and formatting. I realize that not being in any sense a professional in the publishing field the above is not real clear but I'm sure that Hitch can clarify if necessary.
The second thing is that I have done proof reading of original OCR scans and I would be happy to do it again. Starting at 25 bucks an hour and up depending on how good the scan is. It is one of the most time consuming, mind numbing, eye straining jobs I ever undertaken. As a matter of fact I told my boss of the time 'First time, last time, there ain't no discussin it further.' :-)
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