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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
If writers would only complete their text in Word, using consistent paragraph and header styles, then hand it over to InDesign for book design, run it through Calibre for eBook :-)
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Oh, resident Exalted One:
Oui, but that never--ever--happens. We do both here; print and digital, and I seriously do not remember, in ANY book, for at least the last year, a book that went through here (for epub, mobi, or print, or all) that didn't have revision cycles. They do, and, at my shop, on average, 3. Many have 5. (yes, we've had some with over 10, and we've had some books completely remade--from scratch--more than 3x). The only way to conform that type of revising, if someone is giving a Word file to the InDesigner AND to the ebook-maker, is for
the author to go through their Word file and update it to match the edits that they make in their first review copy (whether ePUB or PDF).
Ask me how many do that? (NONE).
So...while it
sounds good on paper (ha!), trust me, zee bookmaking, she no work dat way. We are routinely asked for "final Word files" from clients, and we make them by reverse-engineering the Word file from the ePUB. JUST to incorporate the revision cycles.
Speaking of Exalted Expats, I see that our Resident
Curmudgeon has taken up residing with us again?
Hitch