[bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:40:04 -0400

Basically, what I've found that they sometimes do is just put in whatever part 
of the long synopsis will fit into the short synopsis. This is not very good 
because the long synopsis is written to explain what the book is about in a 
longer form; so just snipping out part of it for the short synopsis often 
creates something that is much less informative than one that is written with 
the length limit for the short synopsis in mind. Sometimes, it makes for a 
short synopsis that is not informative at all. I always delete those and write 
my own short synopsis. I did that on the last book I submitted because all they 
did was insert the beginning of the long synopsis, which was about how great 
the author was. (I happen to agree that the author is great, but that doesn't 
tell anyone what the book is about. So I wrote my own short synopsis, and I 
also removed the "how great the author is" section from the long synopsis 
because I think it should be more about substance than publisher hype--even if, 
as I said, I agree that the author is great.

Evan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jill O'Connell 
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:32 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change


  The problem that I had with my last submission which is quite common was that 
both the short and long synopses were exactly the same. In my opinion it's not 
fair to the future reader; therefore I create a long synopsis. 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Donna Goodin 
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    Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:11 AM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change


    Thanks, Georgina and Roger.

    Best,

    Donna

     

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    If the synopsis is already filled in you do not have to write another one. 
You can if you want to though. You may delete the already filled in synopsis 
and write your own or you may modify the prefilled synopsis. To hold a book 
type the words hold for name of person right before the title.

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    Hi all, 

    Having just submitted a book, I have some more questions 

    1.        When the book was submitted, I noticed that the synopses were not 
what I had written, or rather that what I wrote had been tacked onto the end
    of other text.  Do we still need to fill in the long and short synopsis 
fields?

    Second, How do we indicate to Bookshare that a book should be held for 
someone?

    Thanks,

    Donna


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