Hi Sharon, If you are not scanning and proofing the books yourself then you are right you cannot share the book. Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: Sharon [mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 10:26 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books I'm a bit reluctant . . . At this point, I'm not necessarily doing the whole book. Can you spell out for me sort of how to convince them to do so? How could a school partner with Bookshare and a publisher since we cannot let any student have a publisher book without permission and we cannot forward a publisher book to Bookshare. I'm a bit confused. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: Scott Rains [mailto:scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 1:26 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books Sharon, Be sure to encourage other colleges ad universities to partner with Bookshare both in their DSRC and their publishing houses if they have any. My Bookshare members who ar students insist that when their DSRC scans and proofs a book for them that the DSRC send copy to Bookshare Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: Sharon [mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:58 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books I love hearing about all this. It is educational and interesting to know how all this stuff happens, especially now that I work as a Coordinator of a Disability Support Services Center at a college. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: Scott Rains [mailto:scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:37 AM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books Rick, Great questions. There has been a slowdown in books coming through. The tools for automating several large publishers' feeds were completed at around the same time so that explains the flood. Of course, even huge publisher catalogs are finite so burning through them quickly all at once explains the slowdown. Small publishers do less processing (Jim's references to no XML or ePubs and instead PDF) so tools to automate are different. Each large publisher, for example, required its own tool. The same is true for small pubs. In some cases the difficulty of of creating automation to process their books combined with the smallness of their catalog of books and lack of staff at their end means some small pubs are very unlikey to come in except manually. Unfortunately this doe not mean we have caught up with all backlogs. Some backlogs, the largest number, are PQ files that get captured and diverted for human inspection because of errors found by our automated processes. As for the PDF issue we have been discussing on-list there are currently no PDF files in backlog. We continue working on the processes for volunteers to do these when more come in but at present we are caught up. Did that help? Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department ________________________________________ From: Rick Roderick [rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:27 AM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] status of PQ books Hello everyone, I think this is a question for Scott. I have been amazed by the number of books that have been coming through lately. However, although things never stop, I have noticed that not nearly as many are coming through as previously. 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