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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yep. Even by the mid 80's, PC's were not all that common. I'm not sure when the cut over was when most books were written on computers and yes, then you have the format drift.
It's kind of funny in that OCR hardware and software has improved tremendously, but I suspect for many of the backlist books still not converted, it would be hard to cost justify converting them, just from a profit point of view. Let's face it, you just aren't going to sell that many copies of works like da Cruz's The Ayes of Texas or Daniel Hood's Fanuilh series to list two slightly obscure titles that are on my to buy list if they ever hit ebooks. Or for something less obscure, Asimov's Black Widowers series.
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The Fanuilh series is on mine. I own the paper books, but would like to have the series in electronic format.