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A brave move, Helen -- kudos and karma to you. I asked about your working text because in our first ebook-only deal, I worked on the principle that rights to anything beyond the author's raw ms were held by the treebook publisher: editorial input, design, art, etc.
That's stipulated in our own contracts. Though we would always waive these rights and pass everything we have to an author and offer all help possible, other houses might not be quite so altruistic, and I thought it better to play safe by startting from scratch.
Actually, it's worked out well because our resulting edit for the ebook is better by far than the hardback according to the author and all who've compared the two versions so far. And it looks as though the internal artwork we commissioned is also superior. Hope your own hands-on approach will provide a similar result.
Hoots. Neil
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