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Originally Posted by JSWolf
To do it right, a backlist book that has no electronic copy would cost more to make then a current book. There's scanning & OCRing to add in that you should not have to do with a new book.
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I think that most authors and publishers have transformed the original manuscript into electronic form for at least 20 years. Don't know about the US but from my experience manuscripts were sent to printers as PDF files by the early '90s.