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Originally Posted by eschwartz
This is especially deplorable since any recent book should have been written and printed from Word, not handwritten, and should be EASILY turned into a good ebook. At the very least, the misspellings are inexcusable.
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I have no idea what sort of software a manuscript goes through on its way to becoming a paper book. Is it possible that the Word file gets split into two separate flows early on, and that the software for producing a typeset paper book does a lot of the spell and consistency checking? The idea that the publisher would OCR the paper copy to produce the ebook seems pretty bizarre. Although maybe that's just how they do it for backlist items, and use the same flow for new books, too. Is there anyone here in the biz who can comment?