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Originally Posted by elemenoP
As far as the publishers wanting your files, if the book was published in the last 10 years, they almost certainly have electronic source files laying around somewhere. The book was not typeset on a Gutenberg-style moveable type press, after all.
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Not really. 10 years ago is at least 5 generations of software. I worked in publishing in the late 90s, and the Quark XPress and Adobe Pagemaker files from 10 years ago are not readable by current versions of the software. And the writers were sending in their manuscripts on floppies in everything from WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, ClarisWorks and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. We usually (crossed our fingers and hoped it) opened, copied and pasted into Quark to make digital galleys. And that was the last time the source document got touched - most editing happened in layout form.
So yes, the publishers probably have file folders with floppies of MS Works 3 or Quark 4 files, but that isn't going to do them much good now.
That's why OCR has become such a big habit.