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Originally Posted by ProDigit
I think I agree with about anyone above here.
I haven't read the article in full neither;though great topic to get our frustrations out!
How much do they say it differs in cost to set up an office with 5 employees and a server (director, IT data, 2 Book design and formatters, and someone to handle the finances),compared to hiring a Library sized warehouse, packaging and handling, still buy an office for 3 employees, ...
Don't you think most books of writers are digitally created in the first place?
It takes more time to format a book into a paper design, then it does to format it to fit the ebook reader screens!
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I was just thinking that - If the book is digitally created in the first place (by digitally created, I mean written on a computer in a word processor), it's ALREADY in a digital format (obviously) and it takes about five seconds to convert it to almost anything ELSE you want it in, (except possibly DRM'd formats, I don't know what it takes to create one of those). So that blows his argument out of the water right there. I don't know enough about the publishing process (though I think I'll go email Dana Stabenow and ask...) to know at what stage digital becomes paper in the process.