Concerning 5 and 6, I think that is a very good idea, but I would not know how to manage an expansion of such a list. If it becomes open to collaborative effort though I would want to contribute to it.
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The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:36 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Review - PQ & Volunteer Books 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
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