[bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book

  • From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:37:22 -0400

Personally if there are ads in the middle of the book, I delete them. They 
usually don't come out good and frankly I don't want to be interrupted to read 
an ad.

Grace
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Petraccaro 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:14 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book


  Excellent.  Now, what about the book rating where the text of the book is 
fine, but such advertizements don't come out too well?

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Gerald Hovas 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:21 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book


    I think it would depend on the page numbering as to whether or not to move 
the advertising.  If the text stops on say page 211 and the rest of the 
sentence picks up then on page 212, you definitely want to move the pages or 
possibly even leave them out depending on how clear they scanned.  If, however, 
the pages are included in the numbering, then you might want to leave them 
where they are and just put a note like [Advertising] if they scanned as 
garbage.

    Gerald

    -----Original Message-----
    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jake Brownell
    Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:26 PM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advertising in the middle of a book


    Hi Shannon,
        You could (a) leave them where they are, or (b) move them to the front 
or back. While adverts are not core content and thus not required, I don't 
think this type of information should be outright removed from a book if it was 
included with the original submission. (That is unless of course the advert 
scanned as garbage text).

    For anyone interested my line of thinking behind moving the material is 
that often folks combine front/back dust jacket info in one place. Also a sited 
reader would most likely skip the advert and may come back to it later. Often 
times as well only certain editions have advertisements and not others, and of 
course its not core content....

    Best,
    Jake
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Shannon A. Reece 
      To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:19 PM
      Subject: [bksvol-discuss] advertising in the middle of a book


      Hello Volunteers.
      I am carefully validating The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.  It is a 
wonderful scan and part of the Hard Case Crime series I believe the series 
title is.
      But slightly more than halfway through the book, there is what looks to 
be a two page spread advertising the benefits of becoming a member in this 
series, get a book every month, etc.  
      What makes this slightly disheartening is that the two page spread 
happens in the middle of a sentence...i.e., one page ends in the middle of a 
sentence and then the two page spread begins and then the story picks right 
back up again with no loss of words.
      Now I know we can't eliminate text, but this is kind of sad, that the 
reading in the middle of a sentence has to be interrupted by this advertising.  
      What are my options, besides outright rejecting the book which there is 
no reason to do?  It's got page breaks and I've already done a bit of minor but 
necessary editing, changing i98o to 1980 for example in many places.  Can I 
move the pages to the beginning or end of the book?  Should I put in the long 
synapsis field that there are two pages of advertising and give the page 
numbers so that members know what's going on?
      Any advice or help on how to handle this advertisement would be 
gratefully received.
      Shannon


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