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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Up till now, they haven't had the rights to not use scanning to get even their nonPD books. Once they have agreements with publishers, they won't need to scan books. Some titles won't have digital versions available at all, and scans will still be there for that. But yes, the reason there is scanning at all for titles that are new enough is a rights issue.
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In one of the other threads on backlists and ebooks, it was mentioned that the reason so many publishers' own ebooks are of utterly horrible quality is that they are in fact scanning their own books -- they don't have electronic versions of books going back more than a few years. And it's not the
new books most of us are looking forward to. It's the books that nobody -- including the publisher -- has in electronic format. Rights or no rights, they still need to be scanned, OCR'd, and proofread, and so far there's no reason to believe that this will be done any better than it has been for books in which no rights issues exist (PD books).
Maybe Google will be good to us ...