I may have missed your original post. I don't remember you saying that.
As a matter of fact, I am just reading one message after another as I
come to them and replying if I have a reply. I have already revised some
of the things I have said in this thread as I move from one message to
another.
On 7/11/2015 9:19 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Roger, If you'd read my original post, you'd know that
Nation Books does provide books to Bookshare. And, I did immediately submit
the book to the wish list. I've only submitted one book to the wish list
previously, and it took 18 months to get it. I'd really like to read it
sooner than that. As for scanning books, I have neither the skill, patience,
nor physical health to do that.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: "" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx"
for DMARC)
[mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 8:27 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: policy on new books?
Bookshare does not automatically supply any new book that is published.
Bookshare has negotiated agreements with a number of publishers who will
supply books that they publish and they get to choose which ones they supply
and how many. I don't know what the negotiations consist of, but some
publishers take a long time to sign. Penguin, for example, was approached a
long time ago and the volunteer list was once told that Penguin would
probably never send publisher quality books to Bookshare, but finally, just
a few months ago, they did and thousands of Penguin books are now available
on Bookshare. As for Nation Books, I don't know if they are one of the
publishers that have signed or if they have even been approached. If you
want to know write to Bookshare and ask. If Bookshare does not have the book
you want you can put it on the wish list and hope that a volunteer will see
it and want to scan it and will somehow acquire the book to scan. Also, when
Bookshare has had funds available they have been known to acquire books from
the wish list and scan them. The most certain way to get a book into the
collection, though, is to scan it yourself and submit it. That can mean
either visiting the library or buying the book though. Some volunteers have
better access than others. Personally, most of the books I have been
scanning lately are old paperback books from friends of libraries sales that
were purchased for as low as a nickel and that I don't have a lot of
interest in, but I keep scanning them anyway.
On 7/11/2015 4:43 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I'm really in a quandy and perhaps someone can answer my question. Onof 2014.
June 30, a new book, The 51 Day War by Max Blumenthal was published by
Nation Books. This is a book about Israel's attack on Gaza in the summer
Bookshare has done many books on the Israel/Palestine conflict,frustrated!
several on Gaza in particular, and both of Max Blumenthal's previous
books. They've had publisher's copies available on the day books came
onto the shelves, and they've done several books published by Nation
Books. So why isn't this book available? I've been looking for it
every day, ever since I heard about it and I've requested it. It's
been on sale on line for a few weeks. Can anyone explain? I'm really
Miriamlist of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to
bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a
line.
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to
bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list
of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to
bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of
available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
