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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Fire up OpenOffice. Load in eBook. Click on SaveAs PDF. Then OK.
Done.
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And... you would end up with a pretty crummy eBook. Although you might not think there is any "value-added" by the publisher, I can think of several things. In your example the author submits the book in electronic form and a couple of buttons are pushed, and that's all there is to it.
What about editing? Or formatting? Spelling and grammar checking, etc. Surely you don't think an author is going to have a book anywhere near ready for publication when he submits it to the publisher, do you?
Transforming a book from the author's initial submittal into a professionally edited, formatted, and styled document ready for presentation to the public is some of the value added by the publisher (at least that which I can think of off the top of my head.)