Thread: Cheaper e-books will kill us, says publisher
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Old 03-22-2009, 12:19 PM   #243
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
I agree that e-books take time to make right.

And they will probably take as long as paper books to design, once e-readers are more advanced and support richer design features.
Google and Archive.org scans books at below $10 per book. Now they actually even have automated book scanning systems which automatically can flip pages for each scan.

Basic image scans of each page are perfectly usable for ebooks, you can get the image scans displayed on the ebook reader you can even zoom in to have less eventual border around the text so the fonts as displayed on the ebook reader are larger.

Then OCR can be achieved by Google and others and eventual spelling mistakes in the OCR can be corrected by all users combined using collaborative OCR correction systems once people use ebook readers that have textual input, touchscreens and are connected to the Internet.

Anyways, true cost of digitizing a book is peanuts.
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