[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks

Hi Roger,

 

Actually, what I'm not quite remembering happened before you were a part of the volunteer community at BookShare--probably in the first couple of years. I think it was a similar situation--that someone wanted to submit books that had been scanned for them by their disability services office at school. But, what I can't remember is whether the real issue was that the books were not complete with all copyright info etc, or rather that the books were scanned by someone else and not the volunteer.

 

Hopefully, Madeleine or

someone else from BS will have an answer...

 

Deborah

 

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The context in which it came up before was the issue of submitting ebooks. Those are not permitted and the rule that was mentioned was that a submission should be a hard copy that has been scanned. I think it was worded such that you should scan it yourself, but that was just the wording and did not anticipate that someone might scan a book for another person. I am sure that if it is a hard copy book that has been scanned it is okay. You do make another good point though. Be sure that you check the collection to see if a book you are contemplating submitting is already there. Without looking myself I did notice that some of the titles mentioned were titles that were very likely to already be in the collection.

On 6/19/2012 7:05 AM, Deborah Murray wrote:

Hi Dornetta,

 

I'd definitely wait for an answer from BookShare on whether you can submit a book you didn't personally scan. I vaguely remember something like that came up early on and I don't remember how it was finally resolved.

 

Lies My Teacher Told Me... is already in the collection with an excellent rating.

 

Deborah

 

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Hello Volunteers!

I posed this question another volunteer who suggested that I ask the list so here it goes. I have several books that the disability office at school has scanned for me, the books are textbooks for the Early Childhood Development and School Age Child degree program. I was reading through the safe publisher's list and that several of the publishers of these books are in the safe column. My question is this, if I clean up the scans is it ethical for me to upload them to bookshare providing that I did not do the scans myself? These are very informative textbooks that can also be read as stand-alone books for those who wish to do so.

I also have a book called, "Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Got Wrong" and "The Traveling Pants"(which is a book about the eco-friendly deham jeans.) Both of these were used as "readers" (stand alone text) for my sociology class. Oh yea, how could I forget about the World Religion book (I just forgot the name is all-but this was also a stand alone book for the sociology class)

Please advise, 

Netta

 

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