[bksvol-discuss] Re: I'd rather not see - was Re: Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book

The distinguishing thing is not Publisher Quality but
NIMAC. The former can be downloaded, but not the
latter except by students in grades 1 - 12.

G.Cindy

--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Bob,
> 
> Why can't you read the publisher quality books?
> 
> I checked on 2 of them tonight and both were
> available in daisy and BRF 
> formats. One was scanned by one of the volunteers we
> know well. I'm actually 
> confused about these books. It appears as if we can
> download them as usual 
> and that not all are of excellent quality. I'm not
> sure how they differ from 
> our regular volunteer and staff submissions and
> validations except they, 
> unfortunately, don't have short synopses.
> 
> Always with love,
> 
> Lissi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:21 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I'd rather not see - was
> Re: Re: User cannot 
> download NIMAC sourced book
> 
> 
> >I just went to the bookshare new books site and
> found several  "publisher 
> >quality" books.
> > Frankly, if I can't read them, they aren't in the
> collection for me, so, 
> > I'd rather not see them if I'm not rated for k-12.
> >
> > It's like going to a library and having them say
> "we have all these books, 
> > but not for you."
> >
> > Plus, if things go as bookshare plans, I suspect
> that the number of books 
> > in the new books with publisher quality will
> increase, thus making it more 
> > than just an anoyance to skip them.
> >
> > In short, give me a way to filter them out of my
> search, or, better still, 
> > just don't show them to me.
> >
> > Just my thoughts.
> >
> > Bob
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:55 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download
> NIMAC sourced book
> >
> >
> >> We lost the battle to make NIMAC-sourced books
> available to blind
> >> parents when we pushed this at the NIMAS/NIMAC
> committee meetings.  APH
> >> has taken a careful view of what can be done with
> these books, and the
> >> publishers became less flexible as the
> discussions went on about this
> >> because of other decisions they disagreed with. 
> As someone said, these
> >> are political decisions that trade off different
> interests and access
> >> for all suffers a bit in the process.
> >>
> >> The issue of permissions is a good one, and we're
> actually hiring for a
> >> full-time position to work with publishers and
> authors.  We'll see where
> >> it leads.
> >>
> >> These books are beautifully formatted XML that
> should glide effortlessly
> >> into our collection.  We're hoping to see more
> content like this.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
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***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS 
AVAILABLE AT  
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm

A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT 
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html

Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html


      
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