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Old 12-01-2011, 10:30 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Dude, take a look at the Patricia Clarke library here. All done for free by MR people. I did the scan/proof for The Crystal Button (Crutledge did the e-book type formatting. I released on PG Australia in HTML.)

I've done others. Like I said, it ain't rocket science. Now show me the publisher willing to cough up $500-800 for a well-proofed novel/short story anthology and I'm in business. Funny, I don't see anybody....
Have you actually offered your services to any publishers??? And by your own numbers (24 hours/book) then an individual could be expected to do around 80 books per year (for 8hr day, 5 day week, 48 week year) so say we just look at a million books needing OCR etc, that needs 12,500 man years of work... and there's a lot more books waiting conversion to e-format than that... may not be rocket science but it does require people capable of reading and proofing to do the work and they aren't available at the moment... it's also a mind-numbingly boring job that tends to ruin any enjoyment in the work being dealt with. It's one thing doing a few to get some PD work out in a different form but quite another if you end up doing it full time...
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