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Originally Posted by Phogg
You lack the gullibility to believe making an ebook generally involves scanning paper manuscripts into a computer at the publisher level.
I can't imagine anyone writing books on a yellow legal pad then typing it on an old manual typewriter these days.
It is an even further stretch to ask me to believe that the editors in even the tiniest publishing house are using a red ink pen, some whiteout, and a manual typewriter to edit a book before it goes to print.
Ergot, the publishers have the book in electronic format already.
Or they are so incompetent that they need to be pushed out of the market place and are therefore no loss.
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The fact that I believe the publishers have the book in electronic format was what I was implying in my post. If that was obscured by my wording, forgive me. I also do not believe that anyone would write or edit a book in today's technology-driven age using paper and pencil. My comments about scanning paper books was refering to previous posting on this thread. You and I seem to be in agreement in everything you have listed here with the exception of your use of the word, gullibility. I may be naive in my lack of knowledge regarding the publishing industry, but I am not nor have I ever been gullible. The definition is: tending to trust and believe people, and therefore easily tricked or deceived. That really doesn't apply here.
Kaz