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Originally Posted by GlennD
I'm fairly certain that at least some publishers have figured out that there are already scanned copies floating around on the Interwebz. Katherine Kurtz mentioned in her forward of the updated editions of the Deryni books that a fan had provided her with electronic copies to do her edits. That fan may have scanned them herself....or might not have. I'm aware of at least one other author who used pirated copies to get an electronic copy that they then fixed up for republication.
It seems somehow appropriate...  |
Here is what Katherine Kurtz says in the foreward for Deryni Rising -
"Finally, I owe a special debt of thanks to Melissa Houle, one of the Web mistresses from
www.rhemuthcastle.com, who scanned me the text from her beloved copy of Deryni Rising and probably broke its spine in the process. These first three books, and the three books of the Camber Trilogy, were all written on a typewriter, with carbon copies, in the dark ages before personal computers and word processing. Her kindness has saved me many hours of retyping the manuscript, so that preparing this edition took far less time out of my work on the next new Deryni novel. Another fan has already scanned Deryni Checkmate for me, and I have no doubt that a digital copy of High Deryni will be ready by the time I need to crank it through my machine."