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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I have considered the idea of setting up a crowd-editing website. A large number of people edit one page each, in exchange for, say, store credit. It might be possible to keep prices low, and generally improve the standard of OCRed books. I don't know.
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Distributed Proofreading does this for public domain books. Unfortunately, the logistics are harder to work out for large numbers of copyrighted works, especially when going through a publisher. When Walter Jon Williams self-published his backlist, he started with pirate ebook editions and then copyedited them, and for the few books he couldn't find in pirate editions, he offered print books in exchange for people scanning and OCRing them.