[bksvol-discuss] New Release From Bookshare
- From: "John Glass" <John.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:41:49 -0700
Hello,
As many of you know, the Bookshare team has been hard at work on our latest
release.
Here are the major changes and features which have been implemented:
Validation credits have been increased from $.50 to $2.50 per book. These
credits
are applied to a volunteers account when the book is added into the collection.
When a subscriber has earned enough credit to pay for their next subscription,
this
amount plus any additional earned credits are displayed properly on the "my
account"
page.
Validators will now receive an email message when a book they validated has been
accepted or rejected.
To make searching easier, we added the following links: Browse Authors, Browse
Categories,
and Browse New Books.These appear on every page as part of the right navigation
bar.
When browsing new books, users can now choose the time frame to search. The
choices
are: display books added today, in the last two days, in the last week, in the
last
two weeks, and in the last month.
Author search has been fixed so that if the author's name includes a middle
initial,
they will be found without having to type the middle initial into the search
box.
Embossed braille books can now be ordered without the user having to be logged
in.
When a group account is created, all downloaders now receive the welcome email
message,
not just the primary account holder.
Magazines from NFB Newsline remain on the site for as long as they are supposed
to,
by magazine.
When a volunteer rejects a book on the Step 2 upload page, they can now specify
the
reason as "Insufficient Page Breaks."
Bookshare no longer accepts Doc as a submission format. The requirement is that
all
books must be converted from .doc to .rtf before they are submitted to
Bookshare.org.
John Glass
Customer Support Manager, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3403
Fax: +1 650 475-1066
john.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.benetech.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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