[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need the Link to Publisher Wiki
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:24:03 -0800 (PST)
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
>>>
>
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