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Amazon "Search Inside": How publishers submit books

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Tue, 2005/09/13 - 3:01am — mark

I came across this note today on Amazon.ca. To include a book in Amazon's Search Inside program, publishers submit a "physical finished copy" of the book, not a digital copy. Interesting -- Amazon must consider it simpler to scan and OCR books than to proceess the born-digital versions.