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Originally Posted by elcreative
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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Why didn't you complete you calculation? 48 wks x 40 hours = 1920 hours / 24hrs per book = 80 books x $500 per book = $40,000 a year, work at home. With 4 weeks vacation, and the ability to fine ways to improve your productivity. This would be doom? No commuting, no suits, and you are helping to save the environment? <Shrug>
The real frustrating part is the people who don't want to spend any money to convert these backlist books are the ones screaming the loudest over piracy. "It's not worth anything, but you can't have it." mentality...