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Originally Posted by Alfy
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.
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The source the PDF is made from would usually be an InDesign or Quark document/layout. Although a wordprocessing doc is in the loop someplace along the line I'm not sure if final copy edits are made in a word processor or the layout software. I would guess each publisher has a slightly different workflow. I do know a lot of edits are still done on paper for the most part and then applied to the electronic file.
InDesign will produce ePubs directly which Adobe recommends be converted to Mobi/Kindle using Calibre. Have had a chance to give InDesign's ePub output a good check yet to see if it's any good or not though.
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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.
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For older books they have to scan and ocr for the most part.