[bksvol-discuss] Re: List of Penguin Imprints (was Re: Re: We've signed with Penguin!)
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:53:40 -0500
Hi Roger,
I hadn't thought of looking for imprints other than Penguin. Good
idea. I just checked on Wikipedia. One search I tried was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=publisher+imprint and
it came back 11,228 results! Definitely a monumental task!
Judy s.
On 3/12/2014 7:45 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
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Something else just occurred to me. Some time back Jamie from Michigan
started a list of so-called safe publishers, safe in that they were
not submitting books to Bookshare and so are not likely to replace
books that volunteers have supplied. For a while I was looking for
publishers to add to that list and encouraged others to do so too.
Then I realized something. Over the centuries since Herr Gutenberg
invention uncountable publishers have come and gone. Sometimes a
publisher will start up and publish only a few books until it fails
and in other cases an author may self publish and make up a publisher
name for his one book and so that publisher will publish only one
book. The number of those one book publishers is also probably
unimaginably high. What it comes down to is that it is not even
remotely possible to compile a complete list of publishers that do not
contribute to Bookshare. It makes a lot more sense to just have a list
of publishers that do and to have a list of their imprints. Quite
often if you look at the book itself it is impossible to tell if the
publisher listed is the parent publisher or just an imprint and that
is not to mention publishers which once were independent, but have
been acquired by a parent publisher. Once we have such a list we could
just assume that all publishers that are not on the list are safe.
Madeleine said that she would work on such a list, but as far as I
know it was never done. I imagine that is because that is a monumental
and daunting task too. Now, I did not think of Wikipedia. If you got a
list of Penguin imprints from Wikipedia I wonder how Wikipedia is
doing for other publishers. That just might be the source we need for
that list of imprints. Did you notice while you were looking around
there if there are other lists of publisher imprints?
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