I understand Cindy >________________________________ > From: Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 11:03 AM >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need the Link to Publisher Wiki > > >Hi Evan, > >According to the website, Scott last updated it last July. >I know that at least one publisher, Chelsea Green, has started contributing >content to BookShare, but the site still says it's safe to use. > >If we can't count on that list being kept up to date, I'm not sure how to be >sure that what happened to you, and to me, doesn't keep happening. > >Deborah > > >From:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese >Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:30 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need the Link to Publisher Wiki > >Thanks Lori and Larry. Thanks also Cindy, but instead of an rtf file, I'd >rather check the actual page since, presumably, it will contain the most up to >date list. > >Evan > >----- Original Message ----- >>From:Lori Castner >>To:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Sent:Friday, February 24, 2012 1:09 PM >>Subject:[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need the Link to Publisher Wiki >> >>Hi, Evan, >> >>Here's the link: >> >>https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/3.2+B.+Volunteer+Guidelines+on+Publishers >> >>It's quite a long link so cutting and pasting may work best. >> >>I have gotten burned twice as a proofreader; both times the book was added >>the day before I checked in my copy. So it's good to chedk the publisher >>list. >> >>Lori C. >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>>From:Evan Reese >>>To:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>Sent:Friday, February 24, 2012 9:47 AM >>>Subject:[bksvol-discuss] Need the Link to Publisher Wiki >>> >>>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 >>> > >