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Originally Posted by Quoth
We find it easier to produce an ebook from wordprocessor source and then extra work is needed to create a PDF for a professional paper book.
It's a huge amount of work to make an ebook if you've lost the wordproccessor files and only have a PDF for print creation.
It's an even greater amount of work if you don't even have the PDF, but only film to make plates or just a printed copy. Though pirates do use paper ARC, often they make only a scanned PDF with maybe an unproofed OCR layer.
PDFs are not ebooks. They are facsimiles either from printed material, or files to create printed material. You need a screen big enough for paper size and original font size with enough resolution. Inherently PDFs describe a page size and layout, not content for an arbitrary size of screen.
So I'd say it's MUCH easier to create a paper book if you have an ebook, even if only in ebook format as you can easily get 100% of the content and style for the Wordprocessor. It's true that images might need to be sourced at higher quality, but OTOH, coffee table book photo content is very tricky to deal with for everything from 4" 150dpi to 10" 300 dpi screens.
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The word processor file can be a lot of work if the author has no idea how to use styles and does things all the wrong way. If Word is used, the wrong way can end up with one heck of a mess that you then need to fix once you've converted to the ePub. Been there, done that. Just look at some eBook on Smashwords that came from Word. Just an awful mess that just barely clears epubcheck.