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Originally Posted by frogi
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Honestly, what is the conversion cost of a book that is already written and proofed digitally into a digital format? What is the server cost of the resulting eBook that likely uses less bandwidth than what is used surfing the book site selecting a title?
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It doesn't make much difference whether there is already a digital copy or not.
Today's scanning techniques produce a digital starting point from a paper book that doesn't take that much work to move on to a good Epub. Within five years the software will probably recognize headers and generate the table of contents without us needing to tweek the scans.
Which is why there are so many bookworms on this site digitizing our old favorites.