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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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I don't expect a lot of that, and I would expect Baen to contract out scan and OCR on occasions where it was needed. Baen is pretty fussy about keeping electronic source files around, and I recall a flap a few years back when a computer problem resulted in some original manuscript files being lost. I offered a few suggestions in email to Jim Baen on how to prevent the problem from recurring, like a proper server and regular automatic backups...
Baen is savvy enough that I wouldn't be surprised if they are going back in the background and recreating electronic files from hard copy for any books where they don't have the original electronic manuscripts. I would be surprised if there was any significant amount of such conversions required.
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Dennis