[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare & PQ submissions
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- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:25:59 -0400
Hi Pavi,
I am a programmer, so as a volunteer, if I can help, I will.
Thanks.
Jim
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Hi All,
In the light of recent discussions on the list regarding Publisher quality
submissions we wanted to send an email to all of you to clarify Bookshare's
position on this.
While volunteers continue to be our primary source of books being put into
the collection, upgrading books already in the collection continues to be
one of Bookshare’s primary goals. Many volunteers have contributed
thousands of hours in improving books in the collection, and they do a
great job! But publishers have resources that allow them to create perfect
copies of books. Bookshare would like every single book in the collection
to be absolutely perfect, and this goal actually might be achievable if we
can convince publishers to donate e-book versions of their books. Many of
the Publisher Quality books that we receive are in perfect condition, but
not quite all at this point, as the technology is evolving in the
publishing industry.
We need to encourage publishers to donate their books, since eventually
they will be donating ONLY perfect books. And wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Imagine every single book in the collection being perfect! Currently it’s a
goal, but someday, maybe not too far away, it might be possible to achieve
it.
We know that thousands of volunteers have contributed hundreds of thousands
of hours of effort in putting books into the collection, and we acknowledge
that the vast majority of our books are in excellent condition. But
upgrading our books will always be a primary goal, and to that end, we will
replace current books with publisher quality books. It is also very
important for us to let our volunteer community know that this replacement
policy is in fact a requirement of the contracts that we sign with the
publishing houses.
To the extent possible, we will also inform the volunteers of the books
that publishers will be sending us, so as to not duplicate efforts. With
every batch of books that publishers send us, there are software changes
required in our processing of their books, so the books are currently being
added to the collection in at a fairly slow trickle. But we are pretty
optimistic that in the near future, the speed of donating books and
processing them will increase. Our mandate from the US Department of
Education is to put 100,000 new books into the collection in 5 years. We
have no doubt that we will meet that goal, especially with all the
Publisher Quality books that we are being given by the forward-thinking
publishers who are so generous with their time, efforts and books. Huge
thanks to O’Reilly, HarperCollins, Scholastic, and other publishing houses
and to all of you as we continue to grow the collection as a team.
Carrie Karnos and Pavi Mehta
Bookshare.org
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