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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Well... At least one of the "production steps" I had in mind involves arranging for conversion of back-list items into bits. Webscriptions guarantees that each month will include N books never-before-in-bits (N==4, I think). When Baen's output some month doesn't have enough all-new books, Arnold has to fill in with backlist material -- most of which is not available in bits in any format whatsoever. That means scanning and proofing and all those other icky things one has to do to produce usable text from DTF.
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That's understood, Webscriptions content is not bound by the limitations of pbook (the physical size, the need to have a complete story before it is sold, etc.). However Websriptions is the primary distributor for their ebook equivalent of Baen pbooks, isn't it? I expect those "pbook equivalents" to come as a painless byproduct of their pbook production process. Heck, whoever is typesetting their pbooks should be the one responsible for the uniform "look and feel" of ebooks, as well.