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Old 01-09-2009, 02:26 PM   #60
Alisa
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I think that's the key point: Most publishers aren't thinking of most non-bestseller e-books in terms of "thousands of copies"... they're probably thinking hundreds, perhaps only dozens of sales, lots of pirating loss, and lousy profit margins. If the e-book field is seen to be growing in potential, however, that could change.

Of course, with the changes to the economy, and to publishing, finding a new and better way to farm out such work, to make it workable even in the early days of e-book sales, would be worth their while...
Yep. Most new books I get are good quality. They're probably starting with a good text manuscript so errors are few. There may be a formatting glitch here or there but they're pretty good. Back catalog stuff is iffy. I've had books that were obviously OCR-ed with no checking.
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