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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Once you have the eBook, you can load that into Word or InDesign and it may not need all that much format fixing to make it ready to be a pBook.

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

If you print it, it cost paper and ink

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Also, making an eBook may not be easier especially if there is only a PDF as the electronic source or there is no electronic source and you have the scan/OCR.

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

This costs nothing.

Ah...see, to me, the time involved in fixing the scanned PDF is worth much more than the nominal cost of paper and ink.

Either way, it seems that goal posts have been moved, since you are now talking about the *cost* of converting an ebook to a paper book, when before you were talking about the relative ease of doing so.

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

However, it is much easier to turn a P-book into an E-book than the other way around.
That determines the value, among other things.

Shari