[bksvol-discuss] Re: Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality submits

  • From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:32:05 -0400

We need a signed publishers list to search... They need to start making this
a little easier to deal with. Right now, looks like you would need to spend
a ton of research time just to make sure your scan makes it...

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality
submits

If you go to Amazon advanced book search and type either Booksurge or 
Vantage in the field for publisher and leave the other fields blank, except 
maybe the category combo box, you will get a list of books that are very 
unlikely to ever have publisher quality copies in the Bookshare collection. 
There are some other such publishers too, but they do not immediately come 
to mind. The list of publishers that Bookshare provides that will not be 
submitting publisher quality books can be checked too, but they are large 
companies with very wide distribution of their books, so it is still likely 
that an outsourcer will process them.


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Pathfinder Press:
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Granma International:
  http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality 
submits


Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality submitsLarry, I had the same 
experience several weeks ago concerning a book I had proofread.  The PQ book

made it into the collection the same night I submitted my proofread book.
My only suggestion is to check the publisher.  In the case of my book, the 
publisher was a subsidiary of Random House one of the publishers that 
submits PQ books to Bookshare.
You have my sympathy, but I don't know a solution except to avoide certain 
publishers and avoid their subsidiaries.

Lori C.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Larry Lumpkin
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:22 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality 
submits


  I sent the below to Scott.  If I've missed something, someone tell me.



  Scott,

  I just had the experience of one of my scan submissions being rejected 
because a publisher quality book beat it into the collection.  If I have 
missed it somewhere, I appologize, but is there any way of knowing what 
books are going to be Pq submitted.  I enjoy scanning books for the site but

feel I am lacking my marching orders.  What should I be scanning, or should 
I avoid scanning.

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