[bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me

  • From: "Sandra Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:30:37 -0500

How old is the book, Roger?  I think that with Penguin, as with the many
other publishers, we're probably safest going with books that are older.
The books Judy and I were doing were from about 2005 to the present.

Sandi


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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me

I am scanning a book entitled The Cinch by Richard Martins. I am progressing
at a rate of about twenty pages a day. It so happens that it was published
by a Penguin imprint. Now that the Penguins are rolling in at a rate of
something like over a thousand a day I keep nervously checking the
collection every day to see if they beat me to it.
On 4/30/2014 4:27 PM, ohio1803@xxxxx wrote:
> I am sad, but it is my own fault, I guess.
> My submission of Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times by Ralph 
> Stanley and Eddie Dean, published in 2009.
> Dang it if I didn't have some bad luck.
> I had been wanting to read this, I had been watching for it on Bookshare.
> I get a friend to loan me his copy, and last week I check the 
> Bookshare collection just before I start to scan it.
> I submitted it on Sunday. It was downloaded for proofing on Monday.
> And it was rejected on Tuesday.
> What?
> Sure enough, the proofreader replies to my email query, the reason was 
> it was already in the collection.
> It had been added on April 23!
>
> Ain't that just like a sad and lonesome old song?
>
> Anyhow, not to whine all too sorrowful.
> Any suggestions what I can improve so as not to have more rejection 
> anxiety?
>
> But ....  Here is also what I wanted to mention.
>
> My scan had a fix in it that the copy of this book now in the 
> Bookshare collection that I just downloaded does NOT.
> At the beginning of the text in EACH chapter, the enlarged font of the 
> first word  in the paragraph is separated from that first word.
>
> Example
> from Chapter Seven....
>
> W
>
> e were really on a roll.We had a
>
> My submission from my scan fixed that.
> Maybe it does not matter that much.
>
> But as a reader of many books, and a long time big lover and believer 
> in Bookshare, I want to pass along that.
> And ask that it me not so currently an accepted practice in these 
> publisher supplied books.
>
> I'll try to avoid being rejected.
> I'll keep on scanning.
> But wow, my 14-15 hours last week, well I have a copy of my own to 
> read anyhow.
>
> Thanks.
> Richard (Rik) James
> d28rik@xxxxxxx
>
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