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

  • From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:58:58 -0500

Well, here is a thought. If we start complaining about PQ books, and get them 
replaced by our copies, even though our copies are better, I am wondering how 
the publishers would react. They are giving Bookshare these PQ books, and there 
are so many I can’t even keep up. (smile) But it is really wonderful that 
Bookshare is able to get all of these PQ books!

Sue S.


From: Cindy Rosenthal 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:38 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me

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> wrote:

  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. 
  Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese 

  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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