[bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement with Bookshare

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:05 -0400

Let me follow up on my comments on wanting Pathfinder press to provide digital books to Bookshare. I have, myself, scanned and submitted several Pathfinder titles, but even though I put quite a bit of work into that, I would not mind my submissions being wiped out by being replaced by Pathfinder's own submissions. Pathfinder Press is a leading publisher of revolutionary and communist literature in the United States and could be said to be the publishing wing of the Socialist Workers Party. That is the organization that I used to work with politically. There is another publisher named International Publishers. It has the same relationship with the Communist Party, USA as Pathfinder has with the SWP. I do not politically favor the CPUSA, but International Publishers does hold proprietary rights over some very important versions of some Marxist classics and some very important books of a historical nature. That mmeans that I would like to see International Publishers provide books to Bookshare too. I scanned one of their titles, State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin, and it was very difficult to scan. The margins were so close to the spine that every page was a major operation to get right. It is in the collection now, but I still think that it is probably less than perfect and if International Publishers made their own submission to replace it I would not spend a lot of time bemoaning all the work I put into it. 


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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" 
Stephen Roberts


The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html


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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" 
Stephen Roberts


The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> 
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:13 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement with Bookshare
For what it's worth, I would like to see Pathfinder Press join up. Some years back I and a couple of other people got quite a lot of Pathfinder titles recorded by RFB&D. Pathfinder even started publishing a note in the front of their catalog that many of their titles were available from RFB&D with some information about how to sign up for RFB&D. When RFB&D made its digital conversion, though, most of those Pathfinder books did not make it through the conversion. I did suggest to Bookshare that they be contacted and I was told that my suggestion would be forwarded to the publisher liaison, but I heard nothing else and I have been out of contact with Pathfinder Press for quite some time. In the 1990s Pathfinder Press went through a digital conversion of their own to get all their holdings into a digital format for their own purposes and to be compatibole with the new printing press they bought and I was in regular contact with one of the chief volunteers involved with that conversion, but I have fallen out of contact with him too, so I really don't know what is going on with Pathfinder lately. 


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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" 
Stephen Roberts


The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "traci" <season@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 6:13 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement with Bookshare
I, for one, would love to see a smaller publishing house sign. It's Tripple Crown Publications. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 12:38 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement with Bookshare 



Hmm! Now wouldn't it be grand if Alfred A. Knopf would sign up with
Bookshare? What other publishers do you all wish to see in the Bookshare
fold? Regards, Kim Friedman.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelby Carlson [mailto:kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:04 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement with
Bookshare
This is a wonderful development. Bookshare members, and Simon and Schuster as well, should be very pleased and proud at the vast numbers of books this 
will undoubtedly provide to many of us blind folk.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:25:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement

with Bookshare


Where can we get a list of Simon and Schuster imprints so that we

can avoid

submitting them?




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"I contend that we are both atheists.  I just believe in one

fewer god than

you do.  When you understand why you dismiss all the other

possible gods, you

will understand why I dismiss yours"
Stephen Roberts




The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patti Johnson" <pat1206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;

<bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;

<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "bookshare-discuss"
<bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:57 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Simon & Shuster Signs Agreement

with

Bookshare




How wonderful!!  Hope other publishers will follow suit.
patti
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:28:18 -0500, Judy s.  wrote:




Just found this announcement on the bookshare site at:
http://www.bookshare.org/_/aboutUs/2010/04/simon&Schuster



An excerpt from this press release:



"Simon & Schuster has signed an agreement that will give
Bookshares members access to an extensive selection of titles
from all imprints. ...  "The publisher is contributing thousands
of adult and childrens books in EPUB (electronic publication)
format including award-winning titles and annotated classics.
Going forward, Simon & Schuster plans to provide its frontlist
titles each month to enrich the Bookshare collection."



Woo hoo!



Judy s.
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