[bookshare-discuss] Missing Annotations
- From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:37:46 -0600
Hello everyone,
For some time I have been greatly troubled by the number of
publisher-quality titles posted to the "Browse New Books" area of the site
with missing annotations or book summaries. Its this brief scinopsis that
often determines whether I feel a book is worth a read or not. I've had
previous communications with the folks at Benetek concerning this matter and
received a less than satisfactory answer. This problem should be caught
during the validation process and corrected before a book is posted for
membership access. For God sakes it doesn't take a week to extract a book
annotation and paste it in to the appropriate validation field. If I'm going
to pay a subscription to this service I expect to have access that will
enable me to choose whether to download and read a particular book or not
and I'm sure there are others of you who feel the same way.
When asked what particular titles were missing a scinopsis I explained
that there are way too many for me to list. For a while an effort was made
to include book annotations in the listings, but the number of titles which
don't include them is on the rise again including a missing scinopsis to a
book entitled, "Raising Hell" by Ronin Ro.
I would again urge the folks at Benetech to remedy this problem and
would appreciate the battle joined to ensure that this solution is put in
place. It shouldn't be too much to ask a book publisher to include an
annotation when they send files for inclusion in the collection. Now I'm
done ranting. Here's hoping 2009 will bring with it a solution to this
problem and more ways for us to find information about particular titles
quickly and easily.
Peter Donahue
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