Thread: Books you gave up on ever being ebooks
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Old 01-09-2017, 06:09 AM   #292
John F
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
I have a friend that works in digital publishing and as a hobby scans old movie novelizations that would otherwise never be released.

Because of the nature of those books, all he has to work with is an old mass market paperback and ABBYY FineReader. Yet he turns out very fine, professional grade scans.

Plus there's all the small-press and self-published reissues of books from the sixties, seventies and eighties, where there definitely weren't electronic manuscripts, possibly no manuscript at all.

Creating a good, quality e-book isn't the Herculean effort you make it out to be.
How long does it take him, say for a 300 page paperback?
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