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thibaulthalpern · 03-17-2009, 01:04 PM

DaleDe, I'm not sure "very large digital version" necessarily means that the version is an image. I have an Adobe Digital Edition version of the book African History: A Very Short Introduction which I legitimately bought. That book is about 8.3MB which is fairly large for a small book (as the subtitle suggests). I can imagine regular academic books taking up more megabytes.

I'm not sure what you mean by lack of source control of the author's documents. When talking about academic publishing, we submit our electronic versions to the publisher and that's it. So they do have some kind of electronic version that the author submitted. I doubt that many authors these day submit paper versions of their books to publishers.

03-17-2009, 01:04 PM	#16
thibaulthalpern Evangelist Posts: 478 Karma: 451808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California, USA Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700	DaleDe, I'm not sure "very large digital version" necessarily means that the version is an image. I have an Adobe Digital Edition version of the book African History: A Very Short Introduction which I legitimately bought. That book is about 8.3MB which is fairly large for a small book (as the subtitle suggests). I can imagine regular academic books taking up more megabytes. I'm not sure what you mean by lack of source control of the author's documents. When talking about academic publishing, we submit our electronic versions to the publisher and that's it. So they do have some kind of electronic version that the author submitted. I doubt that many authors these day submit paper versions of their books to publishers. Last edited by thibaulthalpern; 03-17-2009 at 01:07 PM.