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Originally Posted by igorsk
It probably is cheap to "store" an ebook as opposed to pbook, but it needs to be produced in the first place. For most of backlist titles it means scaning/OCRing or retyping the entire text, then proofing, formatting and converting into various ebook formats. While each of these steps might be not that expensive, taken together they're quite a substantial investement.
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Maybe they should do some of that distributed work force stuff like Amazon (or is it google) does. Have people volunteer to convert books... providing either the original DOC files or whatever. The converter could be paid some price per book based on units sold.
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