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Originally Posted by Morlac
PDFs are not the most attractive platform, but converting my books to anything else will be more expensive since they are already designed with PDFs in mind as what we deliver to the printer.
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That is one bit I do not understand: I assume that, when you receive the original from the author, it is formatted in Word format or equivalent. I further assume any edits made by the publishing house are made on this original file. Only as a final step is the PDF for publishing produced. Could you not simply produce mobi or epub files from this Word document? That would be easy enough.
It is my understanding that the biggest problem facing publishers to produce ebooks for old editions is that they do not have the original Word document, and have to extract the text from the PDF. But that does not hold true for newer books.
And by the way, yes, it is great to have a publisher posting on this forum. Still waiting for Hachette to turn up, though...
