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Old 05-12-2009, 01:50 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by ClintBrauer View Post
... 2.) The conversion itself - Even if the source file is in PDF (which many are), then if you have anything beyond a single column with limited graphics to convert...it gets extremely time consuming and expensive. A few years ago the average for conversion was around $140 which since then is less than half of that for a single column "trade" book....
Kind of a modest investment, considering that the publishers can keep selling the resulting file for years to come.
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