Three more novels being uploaded this weekend including my major bestsellers The Midwife, The Midwife’s Advice, and Code Ezra. I will explain how I got to this point shortly, but for now these are books that were published almost pre-computer! In fact, The Midwife was one of the first novels ever written on a word processor (IBM System 6). Since I had no digital version of the edited work, I searched for a way to convert print to type without creating endless typos and requiring word-for-word proofing.
My books are long, take place in foreign locales, and I did not want to undertake anything that would drive me insane.
I was told retyping the book would cost about $2000 per book, then there would be conversion costs to the various e-book formats. My next thought was to outsource the project for typing, but I worried about the proofing problem. It took about 10 minutes of Googling to find some likely outsourcing companies. They swore that the latest in Optical Character Reader technology (OCR) would work out fine and that they would do the proofing. I sent PDF files of sample pages with complex formatting. One of the company’s work was more accurate and their price more reasonable.
This is the one I am using. Ask for details.
This is not as seamless a process as I dreamed about, but also not particularly onerous either.
Details will follow and I will name names.
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