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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Anything not published in the last 10 years, they probably don't have a digital copy of. Publishers often don't keep digital copies once the print run is done, and print-ready digital copies from more than 10 years ago generally weren't PDFs, so even if they still have them, they're not usable. This may include anything not released as an ebook when it was published, even more recently; the publisher may not have a digital file if the book is considered out-of-print.
That's why so many backlist ebooks are full of atrocious OCR errors--they're chopping & scanning a pbook because nobody has the final digital file anymore.
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And as I have learned from other earlier threads, from professionals in the industry, anything older than five years old (today) is likely not existing in electronic format, nor was it saved after publication. Publishers are (apparently) notoriously conservative.