[bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
- From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:49:29 -0800
Hi Mary,
Were you off list for a while? We had a long and involved discussion
about this and I'm not excited about resurrecting it. What I've been
telling people is to continue doing what they're doing--there are
isolated incidents in book approvals where page breaks are either not
generated or there were no page breaks inserted in an RTF file. In those
cases, we've been contacting submitters, notifying them of the
situation, and then working with tech support on an ad-hoc basis to see
if there's a way to generate page breaks on our end or the other end.
So anyway, feel free to continue downloading txt files and validating
them. There is no policy change about txt files at this time.
Thanks,
Marissa
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:36 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
Marissa,
Since when is it necessary to have page breaks in a file as a
qualification for acceptance? I understand how this is more important
for text books and certain other nonfiction titles, and also that it is
desirable for even a
novel. But bookshare already has a ton of txt file books that are not
accurately paginated. If the books that Louise has are of good or
excellent quality, why can't they be submitted as is? Readability,
completeness
and, for legal reasons, presence of author title copyright info, would
seem to be the over-arching criteria, not whether or not the thing
started life as a text file. There are right now, on the step one page,
a bunch of txt
files. Are we suppose to reject them because the probability is high
that their pagination is not the same as the original?
Put succinctly, why can't Louise just submit these books as is as has
been done by others in the past and never mind the page breaks? I'd
sooner have a really good quality text and no page breaks at all than a
lesser quality text whose page breaks are in tact. I'm not saying its
the most desired state. But what I'm hearing is that she should wait
until you've solved the page break problem before submitting these
files.
mary
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