[bksvol-discuss] Re: Massive Kudos to Bookshare and Basic Books
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:56:01 -0400
Thanks Ali, I was not aware that this had happened before. I was absolutely
gonna buy this book and scan it if Basic Books was not a publisher Bookshare
was working with. I didn't know whether it was, but I was of course first
going to check Bookshare's publishers list to see if it was on it. But before
doing that I just decided to enter the title and see if it came up as one of
those previews and got this majorly pleasant surprise instead.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Ali Al-hajamy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 8:43 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Massive Kudos to Bookshare and Basic Books
This isn't the first time such an event has occurred. Kurt Vonnegut's latest
publication, We Are What We Pretend To Be, an omnibus of his first and last
works, is set to be released on 9 october, yet I saw it come in on Thursday, I
think. The first time I remember something like this was when Haruki Murakami's
latest novel, 1Q84, was published in late 2011, and Bookshare got it one day
before its official release. Getting books on the day they're published is good
enough, but having them on Bookshare before the general public by several days
is even more pleasant a surprise.
On 29-Sep-12 20:35, Evan Reese wrote:
I just found a book on Bookshare that was added before it's officially
published. The book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and
Ourselves, by George Church and Ed Regis.
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/550087
According to Amazon, the book will not be released until Tuesday. That
includes the Kindle version. I heard about it from one of the mailing lists I'm
on. Just on a whim, I decided to enter the title into the Advanced search
field, thinking that I could at least get one of those preview things I got
once before, which would mean that the full book would be coming, hopefully on
the day of it's official release. However, I was very pleasantly surprised to
find that I was wrong. After downloading it and checking the size, and going to
the bottom of the file on my Pac Mate, I discovered that this is indeed the
full version of the book. It was added on September 14. On top of that, it is
paginated, correctly. I know that because there's an index at the end and the
page numbers there match a couple things I've checked.
This is just so utterly cool I had to write and give massive kudos to
Bookshare and the publisher Basic Books for letting me get ahold of this great
book before it's released to the general public.
Evan
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