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Originally Posted by rhadin
The day I receive an author's manuscript in ASCII will be the first day in the 25 years I have been in publishing that such an event will have occurred. Authors usually submit their manuscripts in a MS Word document that is riddled with styles and formatting -- usually haphazardly done. At least for the books on which I work, cleanup takes a lot of time. Then the manuscript has to be edited and recoded to conform to the codes needed to produce the final version of the book.
I'll admit I do not work on novels and there may be less involved -- or not -- with that genre, but the nonfiction books I work on take several weeks worth of work to prepare a manuscript for publication. The process is not as cut and dried as some would make it to be.
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I appreciate the pros weighing in.
Ah, thanks. I was continually looking at the delta costs being minimal. But right, the cleanup work has to be charged to all editions evenly.
But once the fork is done (real pulp to typesetting, eBook directly to eStore?), except for marketing, it seems the costs shouldn't be shared. I fully expected very low eBook prices, since I imagined that that the majority of the costs of the physical book were for after-printing sales and distribution. Shelf space and shipping and retail sales *require* a high retail markup for physical books. Though again, I may be missing something or over-exaggerating the physical distribution and retail costs (Software stores take a ridiculous cut, but who knows why?). Just one uninformed person's expectations.