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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
This is changing now, but ten years ago, a PC with a 10gb hard drive was smokin'; people didn't keep files they no longer saw a need for.
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I'm not sure that's it. By 10 years ago I'd be surprised if the overwhelming majority of the editors and authors didn't work with the text primarily on a computer. I think issue is whether the
publisher has a
canonical digital copy of the text in an easily-convertable form (not some sort of final typeset page-masters or something), which probably many of them saw little reason to keep perhaps even now, let alone 10 years ago.