[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books By Publisher
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:01:35 EDT
That is a good question. I doubt that these publishers that are supplying
publisher quality books are supplying every book they have ever published,
especially books that went out of print before electronic text files were
invented. I think the point is that if you scan and submit a book that is
published by a publisher that supplies electronic books to Bookshare you stand a
better chance that your copy will be replaced than you would if you scanned
and submitted a book from another publisher. Even then the other publisher
might one day become one that supplies electronic texts to Bookshare. It would
be good to find a way to determine which books by those cooperating
publishers will be safe to scan. I think there are databases that list in print
books and if your book is not on the list it would probably be safe to scan,
but I don't know for sure because some publishers might retain electronic
files of some of their older books that they are not actively printing and
selling. Does anyone else here have any ideas about how research can be
conducted
to determine which books by a cooperating publisher are unlikely to be
supplied?
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books By Publisher
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6/18/2009 12:32:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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So If a book we want to scan is produced by a
publisher who donates books we don't scan it.
Does that mean that publishers who donate to BS
give a copy of every book they publish? And what
about past books by that publisher. How far do
they go bacdk in terms of their donations?
Denise
At 05:39 AM 6/18/2009, you wrote:
>No, what we did before was advise people to
>check the list of publishers just so they
>wouldn't find after submitting a book that
>bookshare was getting it from the publisher.
>When you choose a book you want to scan, you'll
>finfd the name of the publisher possibly on the
>title page or certainly on the copyright page.
>Then if that publisher is on the list of
>publishers donating books you'll know not to
>waste your time scanning it.scan it. At first
>publisher-donated books were replacing books we
>volunteers had scanned, because presumably they were of better quality.
>Cindy
>
>Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the
>collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below
>
>
>
>Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
>
>Books Being Scanned List:
>https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
>
>
>--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Denise Thompson <deniset@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Denise Thompson <deniset@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books By Publisher
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:53 AM
> > I think this is getting too
> > complicated. So now
> > we have to try and check to see if a publisher is
> > going to subit a book electronically to determine
> > whether to scan something? I foresee potential
> > serious overlap for volunteers here and it makes
> > it even more difficult than it already to decide
> > whether to scan something or not.
> >
> > Denise
> > At 07:39 AM 6/17/2009, you wrote:
> > >I entered "microsoft press"
> > >site:www.bookshare.org in the google search edit
> > >box and came up with nothing. However, when I entered
> > just
> > >microsoft site:www.bookshare.org I came up with over a
> > hundred items.
> > >
> > >Check it out and see if that gives you what you want.
> > >
> > >Bob
> > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Homme, James"
> > <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:59 AM
> > >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books By Publisher
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>As an example, I might want to search for books by
> > Microsoft Press.
> > >>
> > >>Jim
> > >>
> > >>----------
> > >>Jim Homme, Usability Engineering.
> > >>412-544-1810.
> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > >>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Amber Wallenstein
> > >>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:21 PM
> > >>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books By Publisher
> > >>
> > >>I know bookshare will be receiving books from many
> > publishers. Is there any
> > >>way we the volunteers can get lists of books being
> > submitted by publishers
> > >>or those being worked on in-house so efforts are
> > not duplicated?
> > >>Amber
> > >>Book blog:
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