I agree with Judy and Christina. Rik, if you file a quality report,
maybe you can ask Madeleine to accept your book as a BSO to replace
the PQ copy. And Christina, is the PQ copy of the book you and your
proofer did perfect? So often, I gather they are not -- especially,
I suspect they lack proper navigation formatting. So maybe your book
can also replace the PQ copy and you and your partner can get your
credits.
Good luck to both of you.
Cindy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx
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Hi, Judy.
Can you at least get the credits for it since it was in the
approval queue?
Christina
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*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 <mailto: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
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