Charlieperry wrote (in part):
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The low cost of digitising books now means that even if only 20 people want to read a text then it’s worth making it available.
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I suspect that the cost of digitizing books may be higher than you think, at least for cases where there is no pre-existing electronic copy. Simply scanning is cheap, but there's quite a lot of effort in getting clean, well formatted text that is free of Scan-os (
i.e. OCR errors), has no missing pages, etc.
I suggest that the injection of some actual data might be useful here. I'll ask Arnold Bailey (the guy who runs Webscriptions.net for Baen) if he'll give us a ballpark estimate of the cost to digitize a book from the back catalog. My prediction: the market had better be much larger than 20 people.
Much larger.
Xenophon