[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See LongSynopsis
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:26 -0500
Paul, I suspect there are some problems with the system as well. For
example, if the submitter specifies a synopsis at submission time, or
leaves it blank, the reviewer's changes wil not be applied. Any reviewer
must put his proposed changes/additions in the comment field at approval
time as a note to the administrator, who will then include those change
as appropriate. So, if the submitter has stated:
"It's all in the title"
in the short description, the reviewer's changes will disappear, unless
the reviewer puts them also in the aforementioned comment field. What is
even more irritating is that if your submission is expected to replace an
older copy, the short and long descriptions you post will be lost, in
favor of the old ones.
The bottom line is that, while volunteer accuracy does help, a few well
placed bug fixes on the volunteer site will help us as well.
Please do not get discouraged, you have submitted a lot of excellent
quality books!
Guido D. Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
IBM Research,
Phone: (512) 838-9735
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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"Edwards, Paul" <pedwards@xxxxxxxx>
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Two issues. First, would we be better served with a single, slightly
longer synopsis that would obviate the need for doing two.
Second, with many of the books I submitted, I wrote a short and long
synopsis and only ever saw the short one see the light of day once the
book made it into the system.
I think that there is some merit in doing what Allison has done in the
newsletters and simply quoting Amazon where available. That is certainly
a safe course. I cannot speak for other folks on this list but I know
that I often scan but do not read so that my synopses are really nothing
more than capitulations of what I have gleaned from the book cover or
elsewhere.
Paul
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Synopsis
Correct. Short summary is just one or max 2 helpful sentences about the
book. And it should not contain personal editorial comments. Be as
factual as possible.
G.
Guido D. Corona
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This is supposed to be a short summary. If you include "idea taken from
Amazon.com" it will cut into your allowed summary length. Amber do you
have no idea what a book is about when you scan it? Just curious.
E.
At 10:01 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
>Guido,
>Would you recommend if we are not good at coming up with summaries of
our
>own, can we go to Amazon.com and look at their summary, then make one up
>on our own based on that? I wouldn't use the summary directly, but take
>the main idea, then in quotes at the end of the summary say, "idea taken
>from amazon.com
>Amber
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