[bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book
- From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:25:50 -0500
My suggestion is to put the advert content in brackets and leave it in the
middle of the book where it appears. That way the reader will know this
particular bit of current culture, that books are sometimes designed this way.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: Jake Brownell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book
Hi Shannon,
You could (a) leave them where they are, or (b) move them to the front or
back. While adverts are not core content and thus not required, I don't think
this type of information should be outright removed from a book if it was
included with the original submission. (That is unless of course the advert
scanned as garbage text).
For anyone interested my line of thinking behind moving the material is that
often folks combine front/back dust jacket info in one place. Also a sited
reader would most likely skip the advert and may come back to it later. Often
times as well only certain editions have advertisements and not others, and of
course its not core content....
Best,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Shannon A. Reece
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] advertising in the middle of a book
Hello Volunteers.
I am carefully validating The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. It is a
wonderful scan and part of the Hard Case Crime series I believe the series
title is.
But slightly more than halfway through the book, there is what looks to be
a two page spread advertising the benefits of becoming a member in this series,
get a book every month, etc.
What makes this slightly disheartening is that the two page spread happens
in the middle of a sentence...i.e., one page ends in the middle of a sentence
and then the two page spread begins and then the story picks right back up
again with no loss of words.
Now I know we can't eliminate text, but this is kind of sad, that the
reading in the middle of a sentence has to be interrupted by this advertising.
What are my options, besides outright rejecting the book which there is no
reason to do? It's got page breaks and I've already done a bit of minor but
necessary editing, changing i98o to 1980 for example in many places. Can I
move the pages to the beginning or end of the book? Should I put in the long
synapsis field that there are two pages of advertising and give the page
numbers so that members know what's going on?
Any advice or help on how to handle this advertisement would be gratefully
received.
Shannon
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