Good point. Most of us don't realize how important this information is. I, for one, rarely even bother with them unless I'm reading a series and want to know the order. Thanks.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 7:44 PM To: siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Book Info Hi all, No, Sue, she isn't vague at all. She is, if you'll pardon me, explicit, though not specific. In nonfiction books which she needs to read for her work as a professor in a college, she is discovering that the copyright dates in Publisher Quality books do not agree when listed in the book. She is confused about which copyright dates reflect the date of copyright for the text and which reflects the copyright date for the electronic copy. These are sometimes vastly different. She needs to know which date reflects the copyright of the text itself, not the electronic copy because she is using this nonfiction data for her own research and for her class material. This is a serious problem. It is, I will admit, not a problem faced by those of us who read bookshare books for pleasure, but is a real and outstanding issue to someone whose job may depend on the accuracy of the information she gives to her students and places in her research papers. Perhaps you are unaware of the primary dictem of academe "publish or parish"? Now do you see why she is so upset, and why this issue is of importance to her. Frankly, just because her problem isn't mine is no excuse for my inattention or my annoyance or my lack of compassion. It should be a wake up call. Someone is having difficulty. There is a real problem. It needs to be solved. Bookshare is *not* for people who just want to read for pleasure. It is a resource for college students and for professors and other professionals. If the information we have isn't accurate, then Bookshare is at fault. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx web site: http://www.portaltutoring.info Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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