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Originally Posted by elcreative
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...
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While that is true, I still believe that an author will keep a copy of the manuscript as it is made up for publishing, it could be in Word or PDF, but I sincerely doubt he or she would erase it from the computer. It has taken too long to produce and there might be future editions forthcoming.
I can actually say for sure that writers like Vince Flynn and Brad Thor does this, because in newer books there are direct quotes from earlier works, sometimes a passage or two. It was so easy to check thanks to reading it as e-books.