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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
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.
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But printer pdf files are not reading pdf files, they have lots of other material in them for controlling the printing process... and they're are a real pain to convert to a comfortable reading form, time consuming and needing editing so it isn't just grab the file and release it. The author's/editors' versions have, for the most part been deleted until recently when storage became much, much cheaper so it isn't as cut and dried as you make out...