Hello This is Chris
Here is a list of publishers
*https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/publishers/publisher-partners
<https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/publishers/publisher-partners>*
On Feb 15, 2017 10:24 PM, "Roger Loran Bailey" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
There is a list of publishers that supply books somewhere. I have seen it a
long time ago. Now, though, I don't know where you would look for it on the
web site. I don't think it is all that useful though. A lot of these large
publishers have myriads of imprints. Most of those imprints are either
smaller publishers that were bought up by the majors or else were created
for specific genres. The imprints appear on the copyright pages as the
publisher. That list that Bookshare has does not include imprints.
On 2/15/2017 7:01 PM, Kathy Novak wrote:
I agree about going to scan a book and finding that it's already there. InTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
my reviews of lists looking for books I need for research, here's where I
find plenty of openings:
Small presses such as university presses,
older series and authors like Dorothy Sayers,
semi-technical areas such as "What are the functions of the liver and how
do
they work?"
or political criticism done through humorous poetry (doggerel?) in the
eighteenth century,
or the art of whittling.
Maybe I've missed it, but I would like to see a list of participating
publishers.
Another area of adding to the collection, actually improving the
collection,
is redoing some of the poorer-quality scans either by completely rescanning
the book or seeing if a book can be converted back into RTF format and
correcting errors. Many of the errors are easy to correct such as duplicate
pages or common scannos. I have C. J. Cherryh's 40,000 in Gehenneh to redo,
but I just haven't gotten around to it. (I admit, I'm picky about good
scanning).
Kathy Novak
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I know from personal experience how frustrating it is to want to add a
book,
only to learn that your book is already in the collection after you've gone
to the trouble of getting a hard copy.
That being said, there are the books from the wishlist, which are always a
good place to start if you need inspiration. Also, if you know of books
that
are self-published, it is more likely than not that BookShare doesn't have
them in their collection. The only way that would change is if an author
chose to contribute their books, or if BookShare came to agreements with
self-publishing platforms.
One publisher of books that I don't think BookShare has an agreement with
is
Bean. Or if they do, it's not particularly consistent.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of misha
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: free books for scanners
I'm not being a curmudgeon, really. I'm going to keep scanning. But it is
no
longer just recent books that publishers are putting into ebooks and
therefore bookshare. Several times when I found an old copy of a book that
is no longer in print in my collection that I thought, "this would be great
to scan for bookshare." But it turned out to be in the collection already
as
a publisher provided book that went in recently.
Overall, I think it is a wonderful thing that publishers are going into
their backlists to put long out of print books out as ebooks because I'm
sighted but hardly read any real books, just ebooks. And at least from the
major publishers everything they put out as ebooks goes to bookshare as
well. So, I will just be hunting more diligently for those books that still
need to be scanned, because they are out there.
Misha
On 2/10/2017 11:33 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
Yes indeed! I've been burned a few times, most recently with a bunchbksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
of books I bought over the past couple of years and intended to scan,
then the publisher put all of them, about a dozen or so, up in a few
days last October.
But I still have a whole lot of books here that don't seem likely to
get into the collection if I don't scan them, so I persevere. I enjoy
scanning, so as long as there are books Bookshare doesn't have, I'll
keep on keeping on.
Also, as you point out, Bookshare is the only place out there that
let's us, the members and volunteers, add to its collection. We can
choose what we want to scan, however narrow the interest might be.
That is one of the things I like best about Bookshare. I, and anyone
else who wants to scan and/or proofread, get a say in making books
accessible that are not available anywhere else for us to read.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: tina sohl
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:18 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: free books for scanners
I was thinking about what Rick and others have said, and I think it's
important that we continue scanning if possible. Some people, like me,
have interests that may never get in to the collection othyerwise, and
if something interests me or you, and just one other person, then
scanning was worth it. I so much appreciate this about bookshare. WE
have input in to what's there, not just a librarian, like with NLS, or
editors, as with audible's content. JUst wanted to encourage others
scanning to keep doing so.
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