I don't actually know anything about Tor's policies or why they wouldn't
contribute many PQ books to bookshare. I do know they have many ebooks
available without DRM (digital rights management, aka encryption), many
at the request of their authors. Thus, these books could be purchased by
any reading impaired person and converted to whatever format would make
those books easy for that person to read. Perhaps the folks at Tor just
don't realize that having the books on bookshare makes that whole
accessibility process so much easier.
Misha
On 2/24/2017 5:11 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81
for DMARC) wrote:
Now that I have a link to that list I just looked for something that I have been wondering about. Tor is a pretty big publisher, but there are only a very few of their books on Bookshare that are of publisher quality. I just search for Tor in this list and it is not there. It was suggested that they had signed up, but had contributed only a very few books. After not finding them on this list it looks like they have not signed up. I am now supposing that those few Tor publisher quality books were contributed by copyright holding authors.
On 2/24/2017 4:37 PM, Chris Zeigler wrote:
Hello This is Chris
Here is a list of publishers
*https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/publishers/publisher-partners*
On Feb 15, 2017 10:24 PM, "Roger Loran Bailey" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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. In
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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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 bunch
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
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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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