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Originally Posted by starrigger
I'm sorry, but this is simply wrong, and that's one reason there's so much misunderstanding between the e-reading audience and the people putting out ebooks (or not putting out ebooks). Taking an author's digital file and turning it into a properly formatted ebook is NOT a matter of a few seconds, or even a few steps. It's a time-consuming process that involves inputting minute editing corrections, formatting changes, and going through a different conversion process for every one of those damn ebook formats, and then finding things that are screwed up in the process and fixing them.
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Given the quality of a lot of the ebooks I've purchased, they're certainly not putting a lot of time into them. It may take more time to do them well, but many of them are pretty much scanned and then sold "as is" with all sorts of OCR and formatting problems. The high cost of those ebooks certainly had nothing to do with time consuming editing/formatting.