[bksvol-discuss] Re: publishers to scan
- From: Madeleine Linares <Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:01:33 +0000
Hi Roger and everyone,
You can check our website for a list of current publishers on the following
page: https://www.bookshare.org/_/community/publishers. I started working with
volunteers to compile a list of all of the imprints, but unfortunately did not
get a completed list as the volunteers were not able to finish. I do not have
the bandwidth to do this volume of research myself, but if anyone is interested
in continuing to work on this, I'm happy to get them the list we've come up
with so far. If you're interested, please contact me off list and we'll get
cracking on this.
Best,
Madeleine Linares
Volunteer Coordinator
Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
650-644-3459
madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: publishers to scan
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I am not sure that it is worth bothering to track down publishers that are safe
to scan. But since you did this is an opportunity to remind Madeleine of
something she told us was coming a long time ago. First, you can scan and
submit anything that you want that is not already in the collection. A lot of
volunteers decided, though, that is not safe because their scans may very well
be replaced by a publisher quality book. You can take solace in the fact that
your work will be available to Bookshare subscribers until it is replaced, but
if you are not comfortable with that eventual replacement it would be a good
idea to scan only books that are published by publishers which have not signed
the agreement with Bookshare that allows them to supply books. They do not
necessarily supply every book that they have ever published, but it is not very
possible to predict which one they will submit. Jamie from Michigan once
started a list of so-called safe publishers and at the time I thought it was a
good idea and encouraged people to submit as many publishers as they can to be
included on that list. Later I realized that this was an exercise in futility.
There are an incredible number of publishers that have come and gone, that is,
went out of business after publishing only a few books. There are uncountable
small publishers still in existence that have published only a few books.
There are an incredible number of authors who self published and made up an
imprint to publish only one book. In other words, there is no way that we will
ever compile a list of safe publishers that would be comprehensive. The better
idea is to have a list of publishers that have signed the Bookshare agreement
and to have a list of all of their imprints because an imprint can be easily
confused for the publisher itself. Then if the publisher or imprint is not on
the list we can assume that it is a safe publisher. I think there is already a
list of cooperating publishers on the site somewhere, but we really need that
list of their imprints. A long time ago Madeleine said that she was working on
compiling just such a list, but I have not heard anything about it for a long
time. So, Madeleine, this is a little reminder. Can you give us a progress
report?
On 12/28/2013 2:41 AM, Julia wrote:
> Hi all.
> I thought I'd share with you some more publishers to scan. As far
> as I know, British publishers are excluded from the list of bookshare
> PQ titles. Ones which I love to scan include, Robert Hale, Headline,
> Faber and Faber, and Orion. Happy scanning!
> Julia
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