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Originally Posted by starrigger
Jon, I don't think that's a representative illustration. When I gave you my files of The Chaos Chronicles for conversion to LFR, I had already spent many, many hours preparing those files so that they'd be in proper shape for conversion. And even at that, I didn't proofread them as thoroughly as I should have, as witness the number of errors that were brought to my attention after they were up. (And I just heard from a reader--there are still some in there!) I've just finished proofing the basic text file of another book to go into production at ereads, and that was as time-consuming as, say, correcting proofs of a book going to press. (Meaning, it was more than several full days of work on my part.) And that was just to give them a clean RTF file.
One thing not mentioned yet is that standard manuscript format for editing purposes is not the same as the format you want for ebooks. (Or for pbooks, for that matter.) Maybe that, too, will change. But right now, you can't take a typical author's Word file and just feed it into conversion software. Not unless you want crappy ebooks.
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But, if the book has no special formatting and the Word file has all the changes made to it since the last edit and is the same as the printed copy, then I see no problem tossing it into Book Designer and producing an eBook for the Sony with little effort.
In this day and age, I am surprised it's not all digital. If it was, making eBooks would be a lot easier with less effort and more return for the money.