As I have mentioned before, what with outsourcers and publisher submissions the volunteer contributed books in the collection is now a small minority and shrinking. That does not mean, though, that there is no role for volunteers at all anymore. It is just necessary to shift niches. That is, again, long out of print books, small presses, vanity presses and the most obscure books that you can find.
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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: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:16 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Hopefully my last post on volunteers VS pq
If bookshare values the scanning and proofing of books by volunteers. Tell us how? In what way? If we are to scan and proof books for the collection, which books? Someone sends me a box of books to add to the collection but Iam decidedly NOT going to scan them only to find that my scanning andpossibly the proofing of my wife who spends sometimes days on a book readingit from cover to cover will be dumped in the bit bucket because of a PQ submission which is often inferior to our efforts. I'm sorry, but the answers provided by bookshare staff concerning this issue have not been satisfactory. The solution we are being offered is, "well, go ahead and scan and proof away and good luck." As you can tell, I am decidedly not happy.
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