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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
And 90% of the work is frontloaded for traditional books, too.
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And yet, a lot of the frontloaded work CAN be shared between pbook and ebook. If you produce both, then the cost in producing each would be naturally
lower than to produce only one or the other. The production pipeline needs to be changed for the big publishers. They appear to be acting like old dinosaurs ready for extinction if they don't learn to adapt to new media. If it was true that they spend the same amount of money on a ebook in production than on pbook,then why is it that OCR type errors sneak into the ebook version that are not in the pbook version? No wonder authors want a publisher that does equally good work on pbook and ebook.