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

  • From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:23:23 -0400

This is helpful to know, Evan.  I probably wouldn’t have deleted content that 
Bookshare had added, so thanks for letting me know that you do this.  I’ll 
definitely keep it in mind, and pay attention to whether the synopsis that is 
filled in is helpful or not.  I still think it’d be nice for this to be more 
standardized, i.e. for the submitter to know whether a synopsis will be needed 
prior to submitting.

Donna

 

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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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From: Jill O'Connell <mailto:jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>  

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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:32 PM

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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. 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Donna Goodin <mailto:goodindo@xxxxxxx>  

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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:11 AM

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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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