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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There is a difference between *digitizing* an existing print book from decades past and a new release. Digitizing old print books is non-trivial.
Creating a digital edition of a current release should be.
Now, whether the BPHs have actually put in place the proper tools and workflows is a different story.
Judging by some of the new releases coming out, the answer appears to be that 5 years after Kindle, most still have *not*.
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Exactly.
I'm not sure what publishers are using to typeset current books, but Adobe InDesign has EPUB support built right into the product, so lay out the print book, then export it straight to EPUB. Getting it from EPUB to MOBI for Amazon and retaining the formatting might not be as trivial, but the EPUB should be as good as the print version on modern books, anyway.
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Part of that is the minimal effort put forth for ebooks to begin with. How many don't even include the real covers? How often do you see a typo or misspelling that should have easily been caught, even by spellcheck?
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One reason I remove DRM and clean up the EPUBs before putting them on my reader. It seems that many books rely on metadata accompanying the download to display the cover properly on the reader. I side load 90% or more of my books, so I like to have proper covers in the eBook itself.
I'm a little more understanding when there are errors in older books that were obviously OCR'd with minimal proofreading, but on modern books, I'm less tolerant of mistakes in the eBook that don't appear in the print version.