Evan, I've run into several titles myself lately that I'd been looking forward to that came out on Bookshare before being available in print or as ebooks anywhere else. All I can add is: sweet. grin.
Judy s. On 9/29/2012 7:35 PM, 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/550087According 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
