[bksvol-discuss] Re: quality of books
- From: Pam Quinn <quinn.family@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:05:12 -0500
When you consider that the books are donated, and volunteers do a good
bit of the work, fifty dollars to put each book on the site sounds
like a bit much to me. And all the more reason to keep fair rated
books off the site, especially considering software available today.
Pam
Original message:
>Hi again:
>
>Let me point out something that I believe is critical.
>
>It costs bookshare.org an average of $50 to add each title to the
>collection, (staff time, resources, etc)
>
>This was stated by jim Fruchterman at the NFB convention bookshare users
>meeting on July 4.
>Note: I didn't ask for any sort of methodology as to how this was
>calculated.
>
>This # crystalized my resolve to "get it right the first time."
>I always new that adding a substandard book to the collection only to have
>someone rescan it wasted staff and volunteer time that could have gone
>elsewhere.
>But as we see, it also wastes outright cash.
>
>I am not saying we shouldn't rescan fair books, that is why I have the
>fairbook list on my site.
>However, going forward let's try to get it right the first time and not
>attack projects with the mindset of "someone can fix it later."
>Because usually, someone never does and that book just sits there.
>
>
>-- Rui
>BookshareScans
> http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
>
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