The form will let a submitter enter a long synopsis that is too long? It
certainly won't let you submit a book if the short synopsis is too long. I
had that problem just last week. I would have thought it would give an
error message if the long synopsis were above the 500-word limit. It
probably should.
----- Original Message -----
From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:49 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
Hi Cindy,
I have seen "see long synopsis" in several synopses in books from the
collection. Actually, I was not referring to the times when I write a
synopsis, but rather when the submitter has written it, I find it to be too
long and know Gustavo will kick it back, and try to remove part of it. I
seem to have trouble with the edit field. I guess your suggestions would
still apply though.
Thanks,
Sue S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:44 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
Sue,
I don't know if this is much help; what I do is just read what i've written, delete what I think I can without losing the idea, and try again. I tend to be wordy, as you must realize from my posts, so sometimes I have to cut and try to submit two or three times before my upload is accepted.
I did see that someone recently just put in the short synopsis space "See long synopsis." smile
Cindy
--- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------difficult to do on the site when I upload a book with this problem. I am speaking of when I am ready to approve the book after validating it.
I hope this message is clear, as you seem to say most of my messages are unclear or do not give enough info. Smile.
Thanks,
Sue S.
Gerald,
Can you give us some pointers on how to shorten a
synopsis when we
vallidate? For example, how to remove those
reviewer quotations? I find
this very
----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Hovas
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
Evan,
You're correct. We're not supposed to use quotations from reviewers in the synopsis. I believe the reason is related to copyright issues.
Gerald
From: Evan Reese [mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:28 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
Is this a legal problem? I was under the impression that it was not permitted to use quotations of this sort in the long synopsis.
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From: duane iverson
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:22 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted
The Professors, the 101 most dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz.
Below are the lauditory reviews found in the fronnt of the book. I cut and paisted some of these to make my long synopsis.
RAISE FOR
THE PROFESSORS
"Beware the unhinged, leftist academic when David Horowitz hits campus. This book is a thoroughly enjoyable and useful guide to the worst of the worst in the hallowed halls of academia."
-Laura Ingraham, host of The Laura Ingraham Show and author of the New York Times bestseller Shut Up & Sing
"There are those who would politicize the university classroom and transform it into an advocacy center for narrow and extreme views. If we allow that to continue, we will undermine America's ability to lead in the century ahead. David Horowitz is sounding a clarion call... Americans should listen."
-Representative Jerry Lewis chairman of the House Appropriations Committee
"This is the story of almost any campus in America. Parents know college professors 'tend to be liberal' but they don't realize how truly anti-middle class and anti-American they can be."
-Congressman Jack Kingston Sponsor of the congressional resolution for an Academic Bill of Rights
"The Professors is a comprehensive and persuasive survey of the contemporary university. It demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that political extremists like Professor Ward Churchill are a common and influential presence on college and university faculties in the United States. David Horowitz's book should be read by every college administrator and every scholar who is concerned about the abuse of university classrooms and the debasement of academic standards by faculty activists."
-Candace de Russy Trustee, State University of New York
"This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about free speech in higher education. Horowitz does a masterful job of proving how partisan activists are masquerading as professional educators, and documenting the damage they are doing to the American academy."
-State representative Gibson C. Armstrong Author of Pennsylvania's Academic Freedom Resolution
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"Articulate and fearless, David Horowitz tracks the anti-American attitudes and professorial abuses of students that have metastasized throughout academia. The Professors is a must-read, not only for educators and governmental policy makers-but for every parent with high school or college-age children."
-State senator Bill Morrow Sponsor of a California Academic Bill of Rights
"David Horowitz has single-handedly done more than anyone I know to throw light on the political abuse of our college and university classrooms by activist professors who have been enabled to do so because of the incestuous self-selection process for faculty recruitment and tenure. The Professors throws a harrowing light on the decline of professional standards in our schools and the efforts by faculty with political agendas to use their classrooms for indoctrination rather than education."
-State representative Dennis K. Baxley
chair of the Education Council of the Florida legislature
and chief sponsor of Florida's Academic Bill of Rights
"Horowitz's book The Professors is a must read for all parents planning on a quality education for their children."
-State senator Larry A. Mumper Sponsor of academic freedom legislation in Ohio
"With documentation that will be hard to refute, David Horowitz describes the betrayal of our young people by professors who are defiantly unethical and contemptuous of academic standards. It is a form of educational malpractice. We learn that Ward Churchill, the shame of Colorado's university system, has his counterparts on campuses across the nation."
-John Andrews, former president of the Colorado Senate and sponsor of Colorado legislation to implement an Academic Bill of Rights
"Academics on the Left like to pat themselves on the back for daring to 'speak truth to power.' David Horowitz's The Professors speaks some uncomfortable truths to them-to those who run American higher education today. They will hate this scathing critique, but will be hard- pressed to answer his charges."
-Professors Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom Harvard University
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