[bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit CUSP
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 23:54:50 -0700 (PDT)
Your sense of humor is fine--no weirder than Pratik's
and the dear departed (from the list only) Guido's. We
need it. smile I appreciate it and smile--even
chuckle--even though I don't post the smiles and
chuckles.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, I got it straight. I was concerned about any
> possible legal problems, but I was being partly
> facetious as I wanted to hear what he might say as
> an alternative to quotes from people. I guess my
> sense of humor may be a little on the odd side.
> <smile>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jana Jackson
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:44 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit CUSP
>
>
> Hi, Evan! On the site, it's talking about quoting
> things like Amazon.com or some other Web site. If
> the quotes are part of the book where the synopsis
> would normally be, such as the back cover of a
> paperback, it should be okay. I've left them in and
> taken them out, and I've never had a book rejected
> because of quotes in the long synopsis field. Just
> don't include quotes that are not in the book, such
> as book reviews you might find on-line, and you
> should be all set.
>
> Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:14 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit
> CUSP
>
>
> Ok, I must be especially dense this morning, but
> at the risk of revealing the depth of my denseness,
> I will stick my neck out and ask: If the quotes are
> not from people, who are they from? <grin> No,
> really, I am curious, as I am wondering what other
> kinds of quotes he might have been referring to. I
> will have to look for it, but I am sure I read up on
> the site somewhere, or on Jake's site, about quotes
> - from people I imagine <smile> - being a legal
> problem in the long synopsis.
>
> Anyhow, I still have to resubmit the book for
> the other reasons I mentioned. But I don't have the
> time for that for a few weeks yet, and I didn't want
> the book up there for any time if it was gonna be a
> legal problem or something.
>
> Thanks much for the help.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerald Hovas
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: gustavo.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:36 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit
> CUSP
>
>
> Evan,
>
>
>
> I can't say for sure whether or not the quotes
> in the long synopsis are enough of a problem to
> cause the book to be removed. Gustavo didn't
> exactly cover quotes by people when I spoke to him
> about the issue. Even if they are a problem, I'd
> expect that instead of removing the book from the
> collection, the long synopsis would just be removed,
> or edited since the quote is the first thing in the
> synopsis.
>
>
>
> Since Gustavo will need to make the call, I'm
> copying him on the message.
>
>
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
>
>
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> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Evan Reese
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:04 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Gotta Resubmit CUSP
>
>
>
> Sorry, but I have to resubmit CUSP by Robert
> A. Metzger, which just appeared in the collection.
> I left column detection on when I scanned it to make
> sure something at the beginning of the book was not
> decolumnized, and didn't think it would make any
> difference if I left it on. I realized that it was
> putting hard returns at the end of every line as I
> was reading through it, and I tried to remove many,
> but I didn't get as many as I had thought. The brf
> file is just chock full of indented lines which are
> not the beginning of paragraphs. Another problem is
> this pesky chapter heading thing, which I will have
> to fix up. Most of them are in the middle of pages,
> but that still leaves quite a few at the beginning
> of pages. Another problem is that there are quotes
> in the long synopsis which is up on the site. I
> didn't know about the legal problem with that when I
> submitted it, and the validater didn't fix it
> either. Also, the hard return problem shows up in
> the long synopsis which you can see if you want to:
> Rather than taking a new line when encountering a
> hard return, apparently whatever software they have
> running up there just runs the words together, so it
> looks terrible. Sorry about all this stuff. I can
> only plead that it was my second submission, and a
> lack of knowledge about what my scanner would do if
> column detection was left on, and a hope that it
> wouldn't be as bad as it was. I don't suppose Daisy
> readers will notice if they read through the book
> continuously, but for Braille readers, it is just
> maddening. The text quality is very good, though,
> so people who don't care about the things I have
> mentioned may enjoy it and will not have to worry
> about garbled text or junk characters or anything
> like that. But I can't let this stand as it is. I
> would appreciate it if someone would go up and look
> at the long synopsis and tell me if the quotes in it
> are permitted on Bookshare's site or not, If not,
> then I would imagine that the book will have to be
> removed until it can be fixed.
>
>
>
> Sorry folks. Live and learn. <smile>
>
>
>
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