A lot of those new books are not really new additions though, I have been looking at the newly added books myself and have noticed every day a number of books that I know are already in the collection. I would say that just recently a lot of volunteer submitted books and Bookshare submitted best sellers are being replaced. As for myself, I have been submitting old out of print books and small press books from the beginning anyway. That includes a stack of absolutely ancient science fiction mass market paperbacks from a neighbor's storage room that are difficult scans and also books published by Pathfinder Press. Pathfinder Press publishes the kind of books that I am interested in anyway. Also, as I mentioned in another message, I have been at least looking at books on Amazon that are published by the so-called vanity presses. The ones I looked at are published by Booksurge or Vantage Press. I forget the names of some of the others. Those publishers do not even bother to market their own books. They just publish anything that they are paid to publish and deliver the published copies to the author or whoever paid them, to do the marketing. That makes it very unlikely that even an outsourcer will process them. Those books are about as obscure as you can get. I don't know a way to search on Amazon for very low or nonexistent sales ranks, but if you can figure out a way those should be promising too.
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The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:08 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Have your scanning and proofing choices changed, with the influx of publisher quality books?
Wow. I just checked the list of new books that have been added to the collection in the last 4 weeks, and it includes over 9,500 titles. Congratulations, Bookshare! That is absolutely amazing.In the last year I've changed my own personal strategy in terms of what books I work on, migrating to getting into the collection treasured books long out of print or from presses that aren't signing on to Bookshare. That way I feel I can continue to contribute, but in areas that aren't going to overlap with publishers' contributions. I'm definitely curious if other volunteers are doing the same!So--what are you concentrating on scanning or proofreading, and has what you're working on changed with the influx of new publishers coming on board? Are there hints you can share with how you're making your choices, that the rest of us volunteers can use so we don't end up duplicating effort with the PQ books that are coming into the collection?I've already had several books that I worked on replaced by "publisher quality" books. I thought I would mind, but then realized that I'm feeling pretty philosophical about it. I do regret that (in my opinion) some of the publishers quality books aren't as good as the ones they're replacing that were done by volunteers, mainly because of the missing image descriptions in the PQ books that volunteers worked so hard to get into their contributions of those titles. So I hope Bookshare finds some sort of way to have this addressed in the future. I know that the staff are aware of this issue, from what's been said here.Overall, though, as a Bookshare member, I'm actually just feeling like a little kid in a really big candy shop. smile.Judy s. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-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.
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