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Originally Posted by phenomshel
I did leave a comment for Dana Stabenow at her blog, and was fortunate to receive an almost immediate reply. Her answer to my question about when digital becomes paper was this:
"2.Dana
Posted February 2, 2009 at 10:55 am | Permalink
I don’t know. No, I’m not being cute, I really don’t know. I send the book in as a Word .doc attached to an email and a year later a physical book shows up on my doorstep courtesy of UPS."
I invited her to check out this discussion.
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There is work involved from going to a Word document to making it published. It's not as simple as going to the "File Menu" and then executing the "Convert to PDF" or "Convert to Mobi" command. Not that way. Anyone who has done page layout design or printing of any kind would tell you it's not that automatic and simple.
Typesetting (both for digital versions and print versions) need to occur. Then there are pagination issues, layout, formatting, indexing, etc. And then, issues with footnotes or endnotes. A lot more complicated than one may sometimes think.