[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires further editing
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:24:54 -0800 (PST)
There are several options here
1) you can download your book in the step one queue and reject it,
2) you can download your book in the step one queue, fix it up, and upload it
to the approval queue,
3) you can suggest to the volunteer group that someone else fix it up, or
4) you can ignore the book and hope someone else fixes or rejects it.
Since you don't have the original book any more, my recommendation would be
number 1.
As far as talking to publishers about giving us books, it takes time to set up
a relationship with a publisher, convince them to give us digital copies of
their books free, set up a process to transfer the books to us, and then
process the books here. Sometimes it takes months and months for the publisher
to give digital copies of their books to us. And they don't give us all of
their books, just a small percentage, like 1000. There are maybe 20 major
publishing houses, and hundreds of minor ones, to go through this process with.
All of this means that it will be a long long time before we have a sizable
number of PQ books in the collection. We will ALWAYS need volunteers to help
out by submitting books. Indeed, one of Bookshare's greatest strengths is that
the collection is self-selected.
HTH, Carrie
________________________________
From: Kelly Ford <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 6:06:16 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires
further editing
I guess my point here is that this e-mail isn't clear
enough on next steps. From the e-mail Ihave no idea if I'm supposed to
resubmit the entire book and if so what happens to the existing
copy.
All that said, I do not have the original book any
longer and do not have the time to make edits. I read the book the way it
was and it was good enough for me to read. If someone else is interested
in fixing these items feel free. I say that not to indicate that quality
books are not important to me but more a reflection of the time I'm
able/willing
to invest. I fear Bookshare's expectations have become to high at times
and if I'm going to invest that level of energy I'd rather do it convincing
more
publishers to give etext directly versus fixing something that exists someplace
in electronic format already.
Thanks for the further explanation.
Kelly
________________________________
From: Carrie Karnos [mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:10 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: A book
you have recently uploaded requires further editing
What are you supposed to do here? I stated in the email:
Please delete
duplicate pages 102-103 and 264-265. There are a lot of
words that have run
together (as an example: "Life isn't taking some trustW
and figuring out how
to spend it.You work.You contribute.That'si."), which
also has some scannos.
Please separate the words that have run together too.
I'm not going to
fix up your book. I simply make one last look before putting the book into the
collection. Even if I wanted to fix up your book, if there were only a few
minor
errors, I couldn't. If I make changes, if I save the file, it's thrown away.
The
only file I can approve to go into the collection is the validator's copy. A
year ago, I asked Engineering for the ability to make changes to the
validator's
file and save the changed file into the collection. They haven't added that
capability in. It may or may not be in the new website. I'll find out
soon.
In your book, there are way too many scannos and words run together
to fix in a short time, so personally I think that rescanning the whole book
would be faster. But the choice of fixing it up or rescanning is up to you.
Both
the submitter and the validator have a responsibility to clean up the book as
much as possible. Neither did. I returned the book to the download list so you
could clean it up. If you don't want to clean it up, download it and reject it,
which puts it in the rejection queue. I'll remove it from the system, no
problem.
Carrie
________________________________
From: Kelly Ford
<kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2008 9:26:31
PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss]
FW: A book you have recently uploaded requires further
editing
What am I supposed to do here? Am I supposed
to reupload the book or what.
And if someone made these comments, why didn't
that person just do what they
are asking me to do?
-----Original
Message-----
From: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:
Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:56 PM
To: kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: A book
you have recently uploaded requires further editing
Dear
Kelly,
This email is automatically generated by Bookshare.org. We are
contacting
you because a book, (#53985) of American Outrage by Tim Green has
been
marked for more editing before publication on Bookshare.org.
Comments explaining the reason for more editing have been included in
this
email.
We invite you to contact volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if you need
more
information regarding this submission. We appreciate the time you
spend
contributing to Bookshare.org, and look forward to continuing to build
the
collection together.
Below are some of the specific reasons for the
request for further editing
of this submission:
* Please delete
duplicate pages 102-103 and 264-265. There are a lot of
words that have run
together (as an example: "Life isn't taking some trustW
and figuring out how
to spend it.You work.You contribute.That'si."), which
also has some scannos.
Please separate the words that have run together too.
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