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Originally Posted by Mike L
But, surely, OCR and proofreading can't be an issue for more recent titles. For such books, the publisher must surely have a way of extracting the text for the ebook from their traditional composition systems. In other words, the text is already held electronically (complete with formatting tags), so converting it to an ebook should be a mechanical process.
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You'd think so, wouldn't you?
Nope; doesn't work that way. Many publishers don't keep an e-copy after the contracted print run; if they do, it's the ready-for-print PDF that may not convert to another format easily.
Whatever process is used to create a second edition or new pbook print run, it's not "start with the original Word/HTML document & adjust formating from there."