[bookshare-discuss] Re: An embarrassment of riches or the same thing?
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:29:18 -0700
Hi, Sharon, I've asked myself your questions but have no idea why
repetitions occur or the publishing year is suspect. I think your guess
is as good as mine. Regards, Kim Friedman. P.S.: I suspect this stuff
may puzzle the Bookshare staff as well as us. K.
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From: Sharon [mailto:mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:49 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: An embarrassment of riches or the same
thing?
Why do we see things like 0012 for publication year?
Sharon
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From: Scott Rains [mailto:scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:28 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: An embarrassment of riches or the same
thing?
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>
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:02:25 -0700
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: An embarrassment of riches or the same
thing?
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]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 20114:43 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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