Out-of-Print Book to E-book – Bound Book Scanning Reviewed

Books have been around for centuries, blessing us with knowledge, providing us insight into new areas of interest, and entertaining us with intriguing and creative stories. With the long history of books, there is undoubtedly thousands upon thousands that are out of print and not really in the market for reprint status. If you’re an author wanting to republish your own out-of-print book so you can create your own hard copies and, more importantly, have the digital copy for e-book access, there are companies that can do this for a much more economical cost than you could do it yourself, and with their professional-grade equipment, they’ll take much less time as well.

Bound Book Scanning is a company that has been providing this convenient service since 2010 with a focus on making book scanning fast, easy and affordable for the average consumer. Although these services aren’t a new concept, scanning services that appealed to individual needs weren’t readily available until recent years. One person that would like to scan one book found scanning companies unappealing due to the high cost, not to mention the fact that some companies only used a scanning method that would destroy the book so they could feed each individual page through their scanner. Not something everyone will go for to get their book in a digital format.

Thankfully, Bound Book Scanning offers various services to suit the needs of their customers. They offer both destructive and non-destructive scanning services for whichever your scanning project requires. Located in New York they have access to numerous books of interest from their network of prominent libraries, so they could acquire the book for you, scan it using their non-destructive scanning service, then email you the digital files within their 3-day turnaround time. For the books in your possession, you would simply mail the book to their New York location.

To give you an idea of how economical these services are for the individual, I’ve outlined their base package pricing. For the Destructive Book Scanning it’s $13.95 for the first book; $6.95 for each additional book; and $0.05 per page. For the slightly increased cost of the Non-Destructive Book Scanning it’s $21.95 for the first book; $8.95 for each additional book; and $0.07 per page. So, for a 200-page book you would be paying $23.95 for destructive method and $35.95 for the non-destructive method for 1 book. Both of their base packages include a searchable PDF and an editable Word document.

For authors republishing their books to a digital file, book scanning is an invaluable service that provides new life to their past work. With a focus on accommodating the needs of a transitioning era of e-book appreciation, Bound Book Scanning has created the perfect service business to be of assistance to a great number of people embracing the digital age and keeping their prices low enough to be available to just about everyone.


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