[bksvol-discuss] Need the Link to Publisher Wiki
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:47:47 -0500
Hey Folks, does anyone have the link to the page where Bookshare lists the
publishers donating books? I haven't been paying attention to that and I just
got burned. I preordered a book that I was excited about reading and I wanted
to get it as soon as it was released. It was published by the Free Press. I
don't recall hearing of them before, and I didn't bother to check to see
whether Bookshare had an agreement with them. Well, they donated the book on
the day it was published. It even includes the back cover and inside flap
information, something I have a thing about. I'm impressed. Hopefully, I can
make back most of the money I spent by reselling it on the Amazon store that
Lissi and I have since the book hasn't even been opened.
The point is that I, and you all as well, need to either just not get new
books, or check to make very sure that the publisher does not have an agreement
with Bookshare before making an effort to obtain it for scanning, either by
borrowing, through Paperback Swap, or worst of all spending your money on it.
I'm not blaming Bookshare at all. In fact, quite the contrary. I was beginning
a message earlier today, right after this book arrived in the mail, about how
impressed I've been lately finding so many books on Bookshare that I want to
read coming direct from the publisher. Not only HarperCollins, which I
mentioned before, but the MIT Press, Doubleday, and the Princeton University
Press. Just on a whim, I decided to see if the book I had just gotten was in
the collection, and I was (perhaps unjustifiably) a bit shocked to find that
there it was!
There are still a lot of books to scan out there, either older ones, or those
from publishers that do not yet have a relationship with Bookshare. I don't
know how many of you this kind of thing has happened to, but I at least intend
to be much more careful before placing my order on Amazon or wherever for a new
book before checking that publisher list.
When I first joined Bookshare back in 2006, I got into the habit of thinking
that if a book wasn't in the collection, you could get it and scan it, because
that was true for several years. That is still very often the case, but more
care needs to be taken, especially with new books. They say that old habits die
hard, but I've gotta kill this one pretty quick before I waste more money!
Thanks much for sending that link.
Evan
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