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Originally Posted by Hitch
Look, there are a variety of processes to get text into ebook form. There seems to be a confusion of the methods in this thread.
HTH, from the sausage factory,
Hitch
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Hitch, thanks for the detailed explanation.
My little bit of experience was dealing with publishing in the U.S. DoD. I wrote the materials and we had in-house editing and proofreading. The books were then contracted to the printers. Everything was about layout for the printers.
No matter how much I double checked the work of everyone after it left my hands, I almost always had to deal with a certain amount of errors in the end-product. Since I was also teaching from the books, it was embarassing to have to explain some of the errors to our customers/students.
Over the 12 years I dealt with this process, I became more and more insistent on as much review as I could possibly get away with. Our editor realized I was not going to accept less than 100% effort from everyone. It got better, not perfect, and we had setbacks, but overall our endgame was substantially improved.
One process we had to adapt our materials to was on-line presentation. A nightmare from the beginning. When I left, I was still fighting the battle to convince our publication staff that this was a different medium and needed different process from beginning to end. It was very difficult to change the mindset. I was unable to convince them that editing and proofreading needed to be done on the web presentation, not paper copies.