[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
- From: "Scott Blanks" <captaincynic3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:15:43 -0700
The link referenced in Scott's original message on this topic, publisher
partners and imprints, appears to be dead. If anybody needs the updated link,
it is:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Imprints+and+Publisher+Partners
Scott B
----- Original Message -----
From: Pamela Hoffard
To: book list
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:29 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
Gary,
This is the e-mail about the publisher's list.
Hope it helps,
Pam
--- On Wed, 7/28/10, Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 2:36 PM
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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