I've found that a good way of checking if a book you submit could be potentially replaced by a PQ copy is to search for it on the Amazon Kindle Store. As Judy S. mentions, publishers are only able to provide us with their ebook files, so if something you're scanning isn't available there, they've probably not digitised it and it won't be replaced. For instance, about three months before the Penguin partnership was announced on this list, I bought a Kindle copy of Albert Vigoleis Thelen's Island of Second Sight, which was added to the collection yesterday because it is published by Overlook Press, a Penguin imprint, but one of my translations of Gargantua and pantagruel, an old penguin Classic by J.M. Cohen, is unlikely to ever be added in PQ because it was never digitised, thus there is no ebook file of that book to submit, and the Cohen was supplanted by a newer translation from M.A. Screech in 2006. I see that Amazon gives me no results when I search the Kindle Store for "Richard Martins Sinch", so I'm guessing you'll be fine.
On 30-Apr-14 20:38, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:
Actually, I do think that it is one of the less likely Penguin books to be replaced. It was published in 1987 and it is very obscure. When I added it to my currently reading list at Good Reads I noticed that only one Good Reads user had ever read it. Still, though, at a rate of over a thousand books a day it would not surprise me if it entered the collection at any time. Until it does, though, I suppose I will keep right on working on it.On 4/30/2014 8:30 PM, Sandra Ryan wrote: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 -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey(Redacted sender "rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx" for DMARC) Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:17 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor meI 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 publishedby 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 2014.0.4570 / Virus Database: 3931/7414 - Release Date: 04/29/14To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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