[bksvol-discuss] Re: Simon & Schuster
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:52:21 -0800 (PST)
Wonderful News!!
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Simon & Schuster
> To: "Bookshare Vol Group" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 4:12 PM
> Hi gang,
>
> Good news from our Publisher Liaison! I received this from
> her today:
> ----
> Simon & Schuster has signed our
> agreement,
> granting us world rights. They have 5,200 titles in
> EPUB format which
> they will be uploading shortly with an additional 800
> backlist files in
> conversion. We expect to receive 100 titles a month
> ongoing.
>
> S&S,
> founded in 1924, is
> a division of
> CBS
> Corporation and is one of the four largest
> English-language publishers, alongside
>
> Random
> House,
> Penguin,
> and
> HarperCollins.
> It publishes over 2,000 titles annually under 35 different
> imprints, including
> Pocket Books, Scribner,
> Free Press,
> Atria, Fireside, Touchstone, Atheneum Books for Young
> Readers, Little
> Simon, Simon Spotlight, and Simon Spotlight
> Entertainment.
>
> S&S
> has won 54
> Pulitzer Prizes and been the recipient of numerous National
> Book
> Awards, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Grammy Awards,
> and Newbery
> and Caldecott Medals. The New York Times Book
> Review's "10 Best Books of 2009" list
> included
> Half
> Broke Horses by
>
> Jeannette
> Walls;
> A Short
> History of Women by
>
> Kate
> Walbert; and
> Raymond
> Carver by
>
> Carol
> Sklenicka.
> S&S authors include Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark,
> Bob Woodward,
> David McCullough, Jackie Collins, Hillary Clinton, and
> Michael Moore.
> They publish 27 dramatic works, including
> The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.
>
> Simon and
> Schuster.net offers resources for K-12 and higher ed
> educators and
> librarians such as classroom activities, reading and
> curriculum guides,
> reading lists by state of award-winning titles, and
> suggested titles
> for course adoption. They publish the Folger Shakespeare
> Library
> with full explanatory notes, The Ernest Hemingway Library,
> and the
> Scott Fitzgerald Library. The “Enriched Classics Books”
> series
> consists of annotated editions of over 80 classic works of
> literature
> and nonfiction.
>
> S&S has 1500 employees and
> distributes its
> titles in more than 100 countries and territories around
> the world. It
> has publishing and distribution capabilities in the United
> States,
> Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as an
> international
> sales presence in every major market.---
> Carrie again. The answer to your first question is no, we
> don't know when they will be sending us the books. And
> no, we don't know which books they will send us. Believe
> me, if we knew, we'd tell you!
>
> So now HarperCollins, Random House, and Simon&Schuster
> are giving us their books in digital format free. Wahoo!
> Usually the books that publishing houses digitize first are
> their most recent books, and then they work backwards in
> time. No idea if they will digitize ALL of the books that
> they have ever published, or if they will stop at some
> point. So should you scan a book from one of these
> publishers? If it's an old book, sure, you bet, please
> scan it. If it's a more recent book, I dunno. Please be
> warned that the more recent the book, the greater the
> likelihood that we will be getting the book from the
> publisher. No idea WHEN the book will appear, but chances
> are high that it will be
> soon.
>
> I am especially excited to put the play, The Miracle
> Worker, into the collection. I have had a LOT of requests
> for it. And it's certainly appropriate for Bookshare!
>
> Hope everyone is having a wonderful day! Carrie
>
>
>
>
>
>
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