If you go to Amazon advanced book search and type either Booksurge or Vantage in the field for publisher and leave the other fields blank, except maybe the category combo box, you will get a list of books that are very unlikely to ever have publisher quality copies in the Bookshare collection. There are some other such publishers too, but they do not immediately come to mind. The list of publishers that Bookshare provides that will not be submitting publisher quality books can be checked too, but they are large companies with very wide distribution of their books, so it is still likely that an outsourcer will process them.
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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: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:00 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality submits
Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality submitsLarry, I had the same experience several weeks ago concerning a book I had proofread. The PQ book made it into the collection the same night I submitted my proofread book. My only suggestion is to check the publisher. In the case of my book, the publisher was a subsidiary of Random House one of the publishers that submits PQ books to Bookshare. You have my sympathy, but I don't know a solution except to avoide certain publishers and avoid their subsidiaries.
Lori C.----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Lumpkin
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:22 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Volunteer scanned books VS publisher quality submits
I sent the below to Scott. If I've missed something, someone tell me. Scott,I just had the experience of one of my scan submissions being rejected because a publisher quality book beat it into the collection. If I have missed it somewhere, I appologize, but is there any way of knowing what books are going to be Pq submitted. I enjoy scanning books for the site but feel I am lacking my marching orders. What should I be scanning, or should I avoid scanning.
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