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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Sure, if most publishers had some sense left, they would have kept a DOC or RTF and use that for converting.
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The reason most publishers don't keep those files is that those files are not the most current files; they rarely match content-wise the final printed version.
Proofreading, for example, occurs at the PDF stage or the galley stage because one of the jobs of a proofreader is to make sure the page is structured correctly. I agree that this is less problematic with novels and that a final DOC/RTF version of a novel probably could be maintained, but this is not the case with a lot of nonfiction.