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Originally Posted by BuddyBoy
Well, you are welcome to develop, test, certify and support an application system that does, and provide it for free and support it for free if you'd like.  I'm sure one or two mid-sized publishers would be willing to re-tailor their workflow and input files to meet your systems needs providing the system was robust and suitable for an enterprise solution, and free. Providing conversion of the input files from the original manuscript into your input format doesn't end up equating to twice as much work as they are currently doing. |
Nobody has said there will be no initial costs. My argument was that after the initial costs the cost per book will be similar to producing only paper versions. In this case latex2html already exists and for people that need to do a conversion it can probably be tweaked to produce good output.