[bksvol-discuss] Re: Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?

  • From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:18:34 -0500

Thanks Roger, for your good post. 

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changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?

A lot of those new books are not really new additions though, I have been
looking at the newly added books myself and have noticed every day a number
of books that I know are already in the collection. I would say that just
recently a lot of volunteer submitted books and Bookshare submitted best
sellers are being replaced. As for myself, I have been submitting old out of
print books and small press books from the beginning anyway. That includes a
stack of absolutely ancient science fiction mass market paperbacks from a
neighbor's storage room that are difficult scans and also books published by
Pathfinder Press. Pathfinder Press publishes the kind of books that I am
interested in anyway. Also, as I mentioned in another message, I have been
at least looking at books on Amazon that are published by the so-called
vanity presses. The ones I looked at are published by Booksurge or Vantage
Press. I forget the names of some of the others. Those publishers do not
even bother to market their own books. They just publish anything that they
are paid to publish and deliver the published copies to the author or
whoever paid them, to do the marketing. That makes it very unlikely that
even an outsourcer will process them. Those books are about as obscure as
you can get. I don't know a way to search on Amazon for very low or
nonexistent sales ranks, but if you can figure out a way those should be
promising too.


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The Militant:
 http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
 http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
  http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Have your scanning and proofing choices changed,
with the influx of publisher quality books?


> Wow. I just checked the list of new books that have been added to the 
> collection in the last 4 weeks, and it includes over 9,500 titles.
> Congratulations, Bookshare! That is absolutely amazing.
>
> In the last year I've changed my own personal strategy in terms of 
> what books I work on, migrating to getting into the collection 
> treasured books long out of print or from presses that aren't signing on
to Bookshare.
> That way I feel I can continue to contribute, but in areas that aren't 
> going to overlap with publishers' contributions. I'm definitely 
> curious if other volunteers are doing the same!
>
> So--what are you concentrating on scanning or proofreading, and has 
> what you're working on changed with the influx of new publishers 
> coming on board? Are there hints you can share with how you're making 
> your choices, that the rest of us volunteers can use so we don't end 
> up duplicating effort with the PQ books that are coming into the
collection?
>
> I've already had several books that I worked on replaced by "publisher 
> quality" books.  I thought I would mind, but then realized that I'm 
> feeling pretty philosophical about it.  I do regret that (in my 
> opinion) some of the publishers quality books aren't as good as the 
> ones they're replacing that were done by volunteers, mainly because of 
> the missing image descriptions in the PQ books that volunteers worked 
> so hard to get into their contributions of those titles. So I hope 
> Bookshare finds some sort of way to have this addressed in the future.  
> I know that the staff are aware of this issue, from what's been said here.
>
> Overall, though, as a Bookshare member, I'm actually just feeling like 
> a little kid in a really big candy shop. smile.
>
> Judy s.
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