What’s the Christian fiction series, Cindy? Maybe we could do it if it hasn’t
been done. Thanks.
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: At least I didn't get very far.
Bok to scan.Have you thought of scanning books that people have put on the
Wishlist? I used to do that and I may be wrong but I think I saw some books
sitting on the Wish list; I can't scan any more but some looked interestng.
I'm not sure I'm right; maybe it was another list I saw; I'm going to check
again Also, there are some books from series that I might suggest that I think
people will like, e.g., the Anne Perry historic fiction dtective series and
the ones set in RRoman Britain; I'll check teh collection to see if all teh
series are filled in; and I think there was a Christian fiction book (
possibly part of a series that wasn't preachy but looked interesting to me;
however, maybe Larry is scanning that;
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I am reminded of when Penguin first started supplying books. I was right in the
middle of scanning Cold War by Tom Clancy. I continued, but kept nervously
checking the collection to see if the publisher would beat me to it. When I
finished it was not there yet so I submitted it. It languished on the checkout
list for a long time and still no publisher supplied copy. Then someone finally
took it to proofread and right up to the proofed copy being uploaded Penguin
still had not supplied it. But then it ended up being rejected because at the
last minute Penguin came through with their own copy.
On 2/9/2017 8:20 PM, misha wrote:
As they say, I feel your pain...
Recently I had two books that I had scanned and someone else proofed that were
rejected by the bookshare admin because between the time I submitted them and
the time the proffer checked them back in publisher copies were added. I
checked very thoroughly for those books before I submitted them because they
were relatively recent (around 2010 I think). Well, at least we can all feel
proud that it was surely the work of us volunteers that got bookshare such a
good reputation that publishers feel it is worthwhile to contribute to. And
I'll keep scanning.
*sigh*
By the way, I think most of the time books get a new title when they are bought
from one publisher and the new one wants to make it look like they have a new
book by that author. Another case is when the publisher didn't like the name
the author chose, but when a new edition came out the author was more well
known so he or she pushed back to get the title he wanted used.
Misha
On 2/9/2017 10:30 AM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81 for
DMARC) wrote:
I am glad that Bookshare has over a half million books now, but it is getting a
bit hard to find something to scan. I have a paperback book here with the title
The Mind Master by James Gunn. I did a thorough search of the Bookshare
collection to make sure that it was not already there. That was after I had
searched for a number of other books and did find that Bookshare already had
them. Several results came up for the title The Mind Master, but none by James
Gunn. Just to be sure I searched for the author James Gunn alone and found a
number of books by him, but none with the title The Mind Master. So a few
minutes ago I started scanning it. On the title page below the title there was
a note that the book had been originally published in hardcover under the title
The Dreamers. I thought I had better check on that and, indeed, Bookshare does
have a publisher quality copy of The Dreamers. At least I didn't get very far
before I had to abort. I wish I had known, though, before I had acquired the
book. I am now getting books to scan from PaperbackSwap.com because it is the
cheapest source I have with limited mobility, but it is not a completely free
source. Alas, I now start searching for another book to scan. I think
publishers give different titles to different editions of the same book so that
they can sell more books. I am sure that readers of print books feel
frustration too when they buy what appears to be a new book by their favorite
author only to find that they have already read it and they were fooled by a
different title.
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