I just made a quality report on one of the copies. In the next few days
one should either be removed or both will remain and that would mean
that I am misunderstanding something. In the past when I have made a
quality report they have always gotten back to me to tell me how they
would resolve the problem, so if I am misunderstanding something I
suppose I will be informed as to what it is that I am misunderstanding.
By the way, even though the publishers are not checked up on as
carefully as volunteers are the publishers do frequently submit things
that do not belong on Bookshare. Sometimes--and Penguin is especially
guilty of this--the publisher will submit an ebook that is very very
short and turns out to be nothing but advertising for other books.
Bookshare does not want these ads in their collection and when I have
found them and reported them in the past they were promptly removed.
On 5/13/2016 2:15 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81
for DMARC) wrote:
When there is a volunteer produced book on Bookshare and a publisher contributes the book the volunteer copy is removed. Bookshare does, however, allow for different editions being treated as different books . I thought that was the case this time because I thought when I looked at the two different copies before that they had different publishers. I must have been inattentive the time I looked at the first one and when I looked at the second one I remembered the publisher as a different publisher. If that had been the case it would almost certainly have meant that they had been published in different countries with different imprints. However, I just went back to the two listings to check and, indeed, they do have the same publisher and the ISBN matches too. I don't think that this usually happens at Bookshare and they might want it reported so that they can remove one. Both copies are publisher submitted copies, so I would guess that the publisher submitted both accidentally. Bookshare does a lot of checking up on volunteer submissions to catch, among other things, duplicates. They do not do that much checking on the publisher submitted books though. The publishers, for one thing, submit electronic files of what is transmitted to their printing presses and so all the formatting, proofreading, and copy editing has already been done. Also the publishers are given a lot of leeway and do not have to adhere to the strict guidelines that volunteers do. That is because the publishers submit books on a voluntary basis and do not get a lot out of it other than some public relations value. If you hit them with too many restrictions they might just say forget it and quit submitting. Whatever the case, though, on closer examination I do believe that these two copies are identical. I can't say that it really matters too much because with all the books that Bookshare has a duplicate will not take up a whole lot of bandwidth, but I will report this to them and let them do what they want with the information.
On 5/13/2016 12:00 AM, Paul Wick wrote:
Miriam,
Bookshare Will often have two or sometimes three versions of the same book; this is usually because one of the books has scanning errors, or one copy was provided by volunteers, and another by the publisher itself. They get a lot of books Direct from publishers.
Hope this helps,
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On May 12, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So I just looked on Bookshare and it just looks like the book is listed
twice with precisely the same description. It doesn't give the publisher in
either description that I've read.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni [mailto:miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 10:24 PM
To: 'blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [blind-democracy] Re: Listen Liberal
I wonder why there are 2 editions. The book is very new. When it first came
out, Bookshare didn't have it and Deborah thought she would have to scan it.
She was waiting for a few weeks to see if it appeared. Then I looked when I
saw it mentioned in another article. It was there. I downloaded it, and told
Deborah that it was there So it can't be that one is newer than the other.
Miriam
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The two copies appear to be different editions.
On 5/12/2016 4:19 PM, Martian.Lady wrote:
Hi
I just downloaded this book from Book share.
I have a question. Why are there 2 listings for this book when I did
a search for it on Book Share?
I think my Stream is one of the best things I bought. Probably next
to the computer.
Marsha
