Thread: Ebook conversion slowing
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Old 08-24-2018, 05:29 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Yes, I've noticed that blog from their newsletter. A few times I went to buy books mentioned and the books were not available in ebook format.
Which ties in with the slowing down of backlist conversions. I suspect the only way many of these titles will ever get converted is by scanning, OCR and proof-reading as they were either written on paper or nobody can access the electronic files anymore (either because of format drift or because no-one has hardware able to read the file anymore).

(My thesis is in that situation - it was written on an electronic typewriter and the digital file can’t be read anymore.) Even some early Word files I have problems with, and I’ve got to covert some ClarisWorks files from a friend’s father’s Performa (which is still usable - thank goodness - our PowerPCs went to the tip when we moved 3 years ago) and get them into a more modern format for an iMac to access.
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