Why does no one ever talk about how much it costs to digitize a book or magazine? Of course if Iwant one of those fancy PDFs (PWFs, whatever you want to call ’em), I’d have to send a PDF to the vendor and abracadabra, I’d get a beautiful interactive product to browse through.
But what about converting text mystelf if we want to go the re-flowing text route? Or do I have to find an ebook compiler to do it. Seems like it’s something our IT staff can learn — maybe with the help of a consultant — and we can do it inhouse. We’re already using XML, so how much harder can it be? Famous last words . . .
Because Cake Is Good 