What ever happened to the master list? That is, the list that named all the books that were being scanned by volunteers along with the books being worked on by the outsourcers.
On 2/24/2012 1:10 PM, Larry Lumpkin wrote:
Evan, Here it ishttps://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/3.2+B.+Volunteer+Guidelines+on+Publishers*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Evan Reese*Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 11:48 AM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Need the Link to Publisher WikiHey 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
