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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
No clean up at all that anyone ever posted about. They take the Gutenberg text, add a cover image, a clickable Table of Contents and a meaningless copyright line and offer them for sale, often making them free at some point for a few weeks.
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Thanks for all of the information about these ebook publishers--again. I had forgotten that we had discussed this in the fairly recent past. I remember now some of the details that you mentioned--source being Gutenberg, new cover, clickable TOC.
What I specifically meant by "cleaned up" is the text--the text in the books is not just images of the original text. I know that the original text had been scanned, OCR'd, and maybe then proofread for OCR misreads (if the modern, high-tech equipment and software that the Gutenberg people use ever makes any misreads). I didn't remember who had done it (Gutenberg), but I knew that it had been done by someone at some point in time. The text definitely was not made up of just scanned images!
The next time, I'll change the description of these publishers so as to be more precise. At one time some of us had a "contest" on this thread to come up with a short description for the type of publishing company that we were talking about. But we never did settle on one.
Oh, and thanks for the links to the markdowns of other, similar publishing companies. I'm sure that I'll find lots of ebooks that I want to download.