Ok, thank you all.
I am certain this is the same book, as the publisher is same and the year of
copyright is same.
I will submit it.
Nice to have a crew like you all to ask my questions.
Rik
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book with no ISBN #
There are a lot of books with no ISBN and Bookshare has many of them. First,
the ISBN was introduced in 1968 and any books published before 1968 will have
no ISBN. Second, the ISBN was not widely adopted until the mid 1970s, so up
until that point most books still had no ISBN. Third, even though the vast
majority of books that are now being published do have an ISBN some don't. The
most likely ones now to not have an ISBN would be recipe books published by
local garden clubs or some other kind of very small operation. Still, though,
there is no law that a book must have an ISBN and there might be any number of
them that do not. The only way this effects a submission to Bookshare is that
you cannot fill it out and have prefilled metadata returned. You have to type
in all of that stuff about publisher, copyright date and copyright holder,
author, title and so forth yourself. Right now I have a submission that is
currently out for proofreading that does not have an ISBN. It was published in
Russia in 1963. If you are absolutely certain that the Amazon listing is the
exact same edition I think it would be okay to use that ISBN. But all you
really need for it to qualify for Bookshare is a title page and a copyright
page.
On 7/16/2016 9:27 PM, Rik James wrote:
Hello friends and fellow Booksharians!
I have not been scanning and submitting too many books lately.
My last scan of a book is still in the process, and I think it was like late
February.
Arthur Koestler’s book, Ghost In the Machine.
I have no idea what is up with it in the process. Multiple checkouts,
expirations, is what I read last time I checked.
Anyway, I have switched most of my scanning time to scanning my large
collection of magazines that are not in any electronic library that I have
found.
I do have a large to be scanned pile. So stay tuned.
Anyway, here is why I post this today…
I have a book that was published here in my state, that after I scanned it and
made all the corrections and put it my preferred Daisy format for good reading
navigation, I find that the book does NOT have an ISBN number. It is published
by a radio station. It is in its 2nd printing.
Is it worth me submitting for Bookshare approval?
Here is an interesting twist, however:
I was given this copy by the author, Lonnie Bell.
I searched for it on Amazon, where it is not available.
But the Product Description actually DOES INDEED list an ISBN number.
Slidin' Along with Lonnie Bell A personal history of the roots of Country Music
(Paperback)
Lonnie Bell
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=mw_dp_a_s?field-author=Lonnie%20Bell&i=stripbooks>
(Author)
Publisher: KGHL Radio AM-790
Release date: 2012
Language: English
Number of Pages: 298 pages
ISBN-10: 0615730868
ISBN-13: 978-0615730868
URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0615730868/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8 ;
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0615730868/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468718631&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Slidin%27+Along+Lonnie+Bell>
&qid=1468718631&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Slidin%27+Along+Lonnie+Bell
It is a pretty interesting book, to me at least, a biography of a country music
radio host, who is in the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame and will be of the ripe
young age of 92 on July 31!
It has lots of radio and country music history to it.
I think others may well enjoy it.
But I’m not sure if it could be met with approval.
Thanks.
Richard (Rik) James