Thread: Typos in ebooks
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Old 04-04-2010, 10:18 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I hate to say this, but the PDF is sometimes used as for the print version and then the PDF is given out to the eBook department to create the various versions from. And we all know that a novel length PDF cannot be converted to any other format without errors.
If the pdf is based on the manuscript and not on a scan of a paper version (as is the case in the books and articles that my wife proofs), there should be no additional errors in conversion.

It 'should' only have problems if it needs to be OCRed...

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What needs to be done with new eBooks is to keep the book in electronic format and keep that up-to-date with all edits/changes/etc. but in a format that can easily be used to make different eBooks formats out of. That way, we get the same text that goes to the print edition.
Agreed.
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