[bksvol-discuss] Re: more questions, my how things change

From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
you're right. Some people, especially some of the outsources from other 
countries, didn't understand what a synopsis was  I think Carrie educated 
them..  Perhaps some people take from the back of the book without reading 
itand don't realize that what they're pasting is not a synopsis but is a review 
of the book or the author

Cindy

> Basically, what I've found that
> they sometimes do is just put 
> in whatever part of the long synopsis will fit into the
> short synopsis. This is 
> not very good because the long synopsis is written to
> explain what the book is 
> about in a longer form; so just snipping out part of it for
> the short synopsis 
> often creates something that is much less informative than
> one that is written 
> with the length limit for the short synopsis in mind.
> Sometimes, it makes for a 
> short synopsis that is not informative at all. I always
> delete those and write 
> my own short synopsis. I did that on the last book I
> submitted because all they 
> did was insert the beginning of the long synopsis, which
> was about how great the 
> author was. (I happen to agree that the author is great,
> but that doesn't tell 
> anyone what the book is about. So I wrote my own short
> synopsis, and I also 
> removed the "how great the author is" section
> from the long synopsis because I 
> think it should be more about substance than publisher
> hype--even if, as I said, 
> I agree that the author is great.
>  
> Evan
>  
> 
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>   The problem that I had
> with my last submission 
>   which is quite common was that both the short and long
> synopses were exactly 
>   the same. In my opinion it's not fair to the future
> reader; therefore I create 
>   a long synopsis. 
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>     Thanks, 
>     Georgina and Roger. 
>     Best, 
>     Donna 
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>     If the synopsis 
>     is already filled in you do not have to write another
> one. You can if you 
>     want to though. You may delete the already filled in
> synopsis and write your 
>     own or you may modify the prefilled synopsis. To hold a
> book type the words 
>     hold for name of person right before the 
>     title.
> 
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> Hi 
>     all, 
> 
> Having just submitted a book, I have some more 
>     questions 
> 
> 1.        When the 
>     book was submitted, I noticed that the synopses were
> not what I had written, 
>     or rather that what I wrote had been tacked onto the
> end
> of other 
>     text.  Do we still need to fill in the long and
> short synopsis 
>     fields?
> 
> Second, How do we indicate to Bookshare that a book should
> be 
>     held for someone?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Donna
> 
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