[bksvol-discuss] Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:36:55 -0700
Volunteers,
It appears that the high number of threads on the impact of the PQ pipeline has
people speculating in the absence of data and answering the same questions
repeatedly. A review of the discussion:
1) The format errors in the list of Bookshare's publisher partners that was
noted by Larry have been corrected. Until the underlying code has been cleaned
up the spreadsheet is not downloadable. Cleanup is expected by EoD this Friday.
2) The partners list is here:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Publisher+Partners
3) The advice given there is similar to that given by Roger: Identify some
favorite imprints that are not one this list. Search for interesting titles on
Amazon.
4) Deborah has suggested a site listing small publishers and these are less
likely to have agreements with Bookshare:
http://www.newpages.com/book-publishers/
5) Jamie Yates has begun compiling such a non-partners list which will be
published
6) If there is interest in Jamie's approach, and if someone volunteers to
manage this expansion of Jamie's initiative, this list of safer publishers
could be opened to additions by volunteers as a collaborative public database
7) Discussions by Chela, Solstice, and others on contracts touch on issues and
negotiations that simply will not be resolved by volunteers however...
8) Several weeks ago a team of us complied qualitative data on the difference
of PQ and volunteer books which were presented as use cases to senior staff and
engineering
9) Now what is required is quantitative data. Ideally this would be lists from
numerous volunteers organized by month telling me which titles (give the
publisher) they worked on were replaced by PQ books.
Those who have not done so already please send me monthly lists of your books
that have been bounced so that we have good data to continue advocating for you
here in-house: scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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