[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires further editing

There are several options here
1) you can download your book in the step one queue and reject it,
2) you can download your book in the step one queue, fix it up, and upload it 
to the approval queue,
3) you can suggest to the volunteer group that someone else fix it up, or
4) you can ignore the book and hope someone else fixes or rejects it.
Since you don't have the original book any more, my recommendation would be 
number 1.

As far as talking to publishers about giving us books, it takes time to set up 
a relationship with a publisher, convince them to give us digital copies of 
their books free, set up a process to transfer the books to us, and then 
process the books here. Sometimes it takes months and months for the publisher 
to give digital copies of their books to us. And they don't give us all of 
their books, just a small percentage, like 1000. There are maybe 20 major 
publishing houses, and hundreds of minor ones, to go through this process with. 
All of this means that it will be a long long time before we have a sizable 
number of PQ books in the collection. We will ALWAYS need volunteers to help 
out by submitting books. Indeed, one of Bookshare's greatest strengths is that 
the collection is self-selected. 

HTH, Carrie




________________________________
From: Kelly Ford <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 6:06:16 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires 
further editing

 
I guess my point here is that this e-mail isn't clear 
enough on next steps.  From the e-mail Ihave no idea if I'm supposed to 
resubmit the entire book and if so what happens to the existing 
copy.
 
All that said, I do not have the original book any 
longer and do not have the time to make edits.  I read the book the way it 
was and it was good enough for me to read.  If someone else is interested 
in fixing these items feel free.  I say that not to indicate that quality 
books are not important to me but more a reflection of the time I'm 
able/willing 
to invest.  I fear Bookshare's expectations have become to high at times 
and if I'm going to invest that level of energy I'd rather do it convincing 
more 
publishers to give etext directly versus fixing something that exists someplace 
in electronic format already.
 
Thanks for the further explanation.
 
Kelly


________________________________
 From: Carrie Karnos [mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:10 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book 
you have recently uploaded requires further editing


What are you supposed to do here? I stated in the email:
Please delete 
duplicate pages 102-103 and 264-265. There are a lot of
words that have run 
together (as an example: "Life isn't taking some trustW
and figuring out how 
to spend it.You work.You contribute.That'si."), which
also has some scannos. 
Please separate the words that have run together too.

I'm not going to 
fix up your book. I simply make one last look before putting the book into the 
collection. Even if I wanted to fix up your book, if there were only a few 
minor 
errors, I couldn't. If I make changes, if I save the file, it's thrown away. 
The 
only file I can approve to go into the collection is the validator's copy. A 
year ago, I asked Engineering for the ability to make changes to the 
validator's 
file and save the changed file into the collection. They haven't added that 
capability in. It may or may not be in the new website. I'll find out 
soon.

In your book, there are way too many scannos and words run together 
to fix in a short time, so personally I think that rescanning the whole book 
would be faster. But the choice of fixing it up or rescanning is up to you. 
Both 
the submitter and the validator have a responsibility to clean up the book as 
much as possible. Neither did. I returned the book to the download list so you 
could clean it up. If you don't want to clean it up, download it and reject it, 
which puts it in the rejection queue. I'll remove it from the system, no 
problem.

Carrie




________________________________
 From: Kelly Ford 
<kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2008 9:26:31 
PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] 
FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires further 
editing

What am I supposed to  do here?  Am I supposed 
to reupload the book or what.
And if someone made these comments, why didn't 
that person just do what they
are asking me to do? 

-----Original 
Message-----
From: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 
Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:56 PM
To: kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: A book 
you have recently uploaded requires further editing


Dear 
Kelly,

This email is automatically generated by Bookshare.org. We are 
contacting
you because a book, (#53985) of American Outrage by Tim Green has 
been
marked for more editing before publication on Bookshare.org.  

Comments explaining the reason for more editing have been included in 
this
email. 

We invite you to contact volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if you need 
more
information regarding this submission. We appreciate the time you 
spend
contributing to Bookshare.org, and look forward to continuing to build 
the
collection together.
Below are some of the specific reasons for the 
request for further editing
of this submission:

* Please delete 
duplicate pages 102-103 and 264-265. There are a lot of
words that have run 
together (as an example: "Life isn't taking some trustW
and figuring out how 
to spend it.You work.You contribute.That'si."), which
also has some scannos. 
Please separate the words that have run together too.


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