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Originally Posted by Karellen
How does that happen?
How does an author write a novel, spend considerable time and mental energy on it, then not have a copy? Do the publishers demand all copies to be handed in? Does the author have to buy their own book to read it?
Or is it a case of bad luck and copies were destroyed in some disaster?
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As far as I remember from our conversations, she did the originals in WordStar and the computer and files are long gone (mid-90's era). She did have physical copies and was prepared to have them converted to digital format but was saved from that when the publisher located the PDF files that they had generated. I hadn't seen a file flagged as PDF1.0 in quite a while.
Her physical copies, as far as I know, were courtesy of the publisher so she could do a final check for any errors before the print run and possibly some free author copies of the print run.
I don't think it was so much as a disaster as moving computers and not everyone being paranoid about backups. In the early 2000's, ebooks and indie publishing was not really a popular item with most authors.