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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You're missing one point: Standard formatting for printed books is very different than formatting for e-books. At the moment, there is no one-click "translation" button to convert one to the other cleanly. Therefore, the publisher has no choice but to format the document twice, essentially from scratch.
Until that changes, publishers will be hesitant to commit that extra time, for so little of a return in e-book sales.
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I guess that might be true.
IF and only if the publisher is an anachronism mired in the nineteenth century.
Period.
In the event, however, that the publisher should turn out to be an educated business man, there is obviously the third option of having software written and hardware set up to fully automate the process. Just like one does with any other repetitive process in any other business.