“Getting books scanned quickly is not a problem for us since we can outsource it. Our major problem is creating the five different ebook editions of the book, MS Reader, PDF, PalmDoc, HieBook and Mobi. This takes time and effort by highly skilled people who require the knowledge to mark up the text properly, create the required files and then put it through the ebook convertors to create the final ebook editions. This currently takes us three to four hours per book which is far too long and costly.” – Chad Sichello of Second Chance Publishers, posting to the eBook Community List.

The TeleRead take: Don’t believe that the Tower of eBabel is a tax on publishers, among others? What better illustration than the example above? In fact, I suspect that the “three to four hours” is rather brief compared to the ordeal that other publishers suffer.

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