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Originally Posted by mrmikel
If they really don't have the resources, then why are they paying someone else to do it?
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It's hard. I get asked for free help
all the time. I mean, ALL the time. I get pinged by people from forums, (not MR, mind you), etc., asking for "could you look at this and
just tell me..." sort of thing. Sometimes, if it's a) interesting or b) instantly obvious, I'll do it, but mostly...no. I just
can't. It's hard enough to keep a business going (in the US) in this day of super-duper uber-el-cheapo competition from offshore without taking one's eye off the ball.
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There are OCR apps for phones that aren't very expensive and some are free. If they are out of work, etc then they have the time to do it. Most of making epubs is not technology, but time, oodles of it.
There is tons of information on here you can use in all time you have because you are unemployed.....
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Yes. I understand it, I do--they have an asset that they want to use to help pull themselves OUT of the hole they're in. But hell, I'm not a publisher, I'm not (can't) take payment "on the come," as it were. Believe me, I get asked for THAT all the time, too ("can I pay you from the proceeds of my sales?"). It's a tough thing to turn people down, but....unfortunately, my staff don't get paid that way, so I have to ensure that real money comes in, so that everybody can pay their real rent. ;-)
P.S.: for those concerned, I did explain, in minute detail, everything he needed to do. At last email (now to 8) he's elected to retype the whole thing. We'll see.
Hitch