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

  • From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:25:19 -0400

Hi, Judy.

Can you at least get the credits for it since it was in the approval queue?

Christina

 

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:54 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me

 

Hey, Rik,

I feel your pain. Four books that I was in the middle of working on with
another volunteer (one already waiting for approval) showed up as publisher
quality books yesterday.  Wah! Oh well, none of us could have known
(including Bookshare) that Penguin would cave and make available almost
immediately tens of thousands of books. But it is frustrating to lose the
time.

I really encourage you to file a book quality report on the publisher
quality book regarding the separation of the first letter of each chapter
from the rest of the word. If we don't file those reports, these things
don't get fixed and the conversion that Bookshare does of PQ books doesn't
improve over time.

Judy s. 
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On 4/30/2014 3:27 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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