[sdiy] re-publishing typewritten material

[Barry Klein]

As many of you know, similar to Electronotes, my book, Electronic Music 
Circuits, was typewritten without any Word doc ever created.
I obtained full rights to the material and then utilized my employer's 
printing center to print in 8.5"x 11" spiral bound format.  I have tried to 
utilize Kindle Creator, Lulu, and Ingram Spark's book creation tools and 
just get frustrated each time.  I am not trying to OCR the book, just clean 
up the pages free of residual black marks from copies of copies etc. and try 
and correct what errors I know about.  If I were to try OCR it would get 
maybe 80% of the print content correct but totally choke on the schematics. 
No way am I about to redraw the schematics.  As it stands, I have the book 
in PDF form with a file size of about 40MB (334 pages).  Not something you 
can email.  I am sure there are those out there that would take on the job 
of doing all this for hundreds of dollars, but I don't believe the cost 
would be justified.  Books are just getting too expensive to print and ship. 
I am frustrated I can't just edit and see where boundaries are being 
exceeded etc.  It looks good on the screen but gets trashed in the creation 
app.  I don't want to take on the job of managing packaging and shipping - I 
was hoping for one of these 3 companies to take care of it.  Electronotes 
will be the same deal: you can't just give one of these companies the "big 
PDF" (or the physical master copy) and sit back waiting for monthly 
royalties.