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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Even the older titles in this series are not old enough to have been done before email submission was common. So, the publishers already HAVE an electronic form of the book
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Most publishers didn't start keeping any kind of digital copy until a year or two ago (strange huh). You'd think they'd have been keeping digital copies for many years, but the common way to do things (like a new printing) has been to re-typeset the book from scratch often by scanning and OCRing an old copy of the book. Also the email submission from an author is a draft copy and doesn't include the various stages of editing which are most of the time still done on paper.