[bksvol-discuss] Re: # 5 & 6 - PQ & Volunteer Books
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:48:33 -0700
Roger,
I would set up a Google Doc spreadsheet. Jamie would populate it first with her
list. Then a volunteer would keep it updated as editor. The contents of the
spreadsheet would auto-publish to a wiki page that would be created to
compliment the wiki list of Bookshare publisher partners.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey [rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:47 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
Concerning 5 and 6, I think that is a very good idea, but I would not know
how to manage an expansion of such a list. If it becomes open to
collaborative effort though I would want to contribute to it.
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From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
Volunteers,
It appears that the high number of threads on the impact of the PQ pipeline
has people speculating in the absence of data and answering the same
questions repeatedly. A review of the discussion:
1) The format errors in the list of Bookshare's publisher partners that was
noted by Larry have been corrected. Until the underlying code has been
cleaned up the spreadsheet is not downloadable. Cleanup is expected by EoD
this Friday.
2) The partners list is here:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Publisher+Partners
3) The advice given there is similar to that given by Roger: Identify some
favorite imprints that are not one this list. Search for interesting titles
on Amazon.
4) Deborah has suggested a site listing small publishers and these are less
likely to have agreements with Bookshare:
http://www.newpages.com/book-publishers/
5) Jamie Yates has begun compiling such a non-partners list which will be
published
6) If there is interest in Jamie's approach, and if someone volunteers to
manage this expansion of Jamie's initiative, this list of safer publishers
could be opened to additions by volunteers as a collaborative public
database
7) Discussions by Chela, Solstice, and others on contracts touch on issues
and negotiations that simply will not be resolved by volunteers however...
8) Several weeks ago a team of us complied qualitative data on the
difference of PQ and volunteer books which were presented as use cases to
senior staff and engineering
9) Now what is required is quantitative data. Ideally this would be lists
from numerous volunteers organized by month telling me which titles (give
the publisher) they worked on were replaced by PQ books.
Those who have not done so already please send me monthly lists of your
books that have been bounced so that we have good data to continue
advocating for you here in-house: scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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