[bookshare-discuss] Re: An embarrassment of riches or the same thing?
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:28:10 -0700
Ah, finally an easy question to answer!
What you are observing in the Bookshare collection is commonplace inside the
publishing industry. You probably have run into the term "errata" in books at
some point. It just means "errors" but, for a quality conscious publisher,
finding errata triggers production of a corrected edition. With digital books
it is much easier and less expensive to push out a new edition with errors
corrected than it was with print. What you are seeing is quality assurance at
work.
In the past few days this normal traffic has been heavier because we added a
batch of PQ books that received some extra quality reviews here at Benetech
before going live.
Scott Rains
Benetech fellow
From: Sharon <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
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Why does that keep happening? Why do we get a book over and over again? I do
find it confusing.
Sharon
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From: Kim Friedman [mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] An embarrassment of riches or the same thing?
Hi, gang, it seems bookshare is being inundated again with stuff from
publishers. The one thing I hope is that there will be more new stuff
than the repetition of books that these publishers have already donated.
I have no idea what or if Bookshare can say: "Thanks very much,
sir/ma'm, but remember, you sent us Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka last
quarter and it's fine. You don't need to send it again." This book
inundation is lovely but I can't keep up with what's new, very daunting
for me since I like to check the site every day for fiction I might
like. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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