Pam and Gary,
By end of day this Friday we hope to have an update to the list as well as
some updated guidance on selecting books to submit. This will appear in
chapter 3 "Scan a Book" of the online manual for volunteers.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pamela Hoffard
[crosssttch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:29 AM
To: book list
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
Gary,
This is the e-mail about the publisher's list.
Hope it helps,
Pam
--- On Wed, 7/28/10, Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 2:36 PM
Volunteers,
It appears that the high number of threads on the impact of the PQ
pipeline has people speculating in the absence of data and answering the
same questions repeatedly. A review of the discussion:
1) The format errors in the list of Bookshare's publisher partners that
was noted by Larry have been corrected. Until the underlying code has been
cleaned up the spreadsheet is not downloadable. Cleanup is expected by EoD
this Friday.
2) The partners list is here:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Publisher+Partners
3) The advice given there is similar to that given by Roger: Identify some
favorite imprints that are not one this list. Search for interesting
titles on Amazon.
4) Deborah has suggested a site listing small publishers and these are
less likely to have agreements with
Bookshare: http://www.newpages.com/book-publishers/
5) Jamie Yates has begun compiling such a non-partners list which will be
published
6) If there is interest in Jamie's approach, and if someone volunteers to
manage this expansion of Jamie's initiative, this list of safer publishers
could be opened to additions by volunteers as a collaborative public database
7) Discussions by Chela, Solstice, and others on contracts touch on issues
and negotiations that simply will not be resolved by volunteers however...
8) Several weeks ago a team of us complied qualitative data on the
difference of PQ and volunteer books which were presented as use cases to
senior staff and engineering
9) Now what is required is quantitative data. Ideally this would be lists
from numerous volunteers organized by month telling me which titles (give
the publisher) they worked on were replaced by PQ books.
Those who have not done so already please send me monthly lists of your
books that have been bounced so that we have good data to continue
advocating for you here in-house:
scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx</mc/compose?to=scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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