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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Same here, and as has been discussed the cost for older books as ebooks has to do with the lack of a digital file being readily available to the publishers in a format (or at all) that they can work with in creating an ebook. Some authors use rather outdated computers because that's what they've always used, others use typewriters, and of course there are plenty who were writing before the advent of the home computer.
This means the publisher has to either work with the file they have, or scan a copy of the book and then edit it for OCR errors, then format it. This basically makes the ebook a new book, but without pbook sales to bolster it as it's not likely the backlist of any given author is going to increase randomly in popularity. The price, thus, is going to be higher since there is added cost.
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I have a pdf cookbook. It was typed on a brother word processor. I sent a copy to a professional formatter to get a price for a usable epub. Minimum price was $350.
Needless to say, I won't be publishing it.
So yes, major cost involved.