[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long Synopsis
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:59:13 -0400
Paul,
FYI, the short summaries are used when the book is displayed to the user
the first time. When the user chooses the book title to go into the
book description, the larger summary appears. If you submitted a book
with both summary fields filled in and the larger summary did not
appear, then something must have gone wrong during the submission
process or the validation process.
Pratik
Pratik Patel
Managing Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
the City University of New York
(718) 997-3775
ppatel@xxxxxx
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Two issues. First, would we be better served with a single, slightly
longer synopsis that would obviate the need for doing two.
Second, with many of the books I submitted, I wrote a short and long
synopsis and only ever saw the short one see the light of day once the
book made it into the system.
I think that there is some merit in doing what Allison has done in the
newsletters and simply quoting Amazon where available. That is
certainly a safe course. I cannot speak for other folks on this list
but I know that I often scan but do not read so that my synopses are
really nothing more than capitulations of what I have gleaned from the
book cover or elsewhere.
Paul
Paul Edwards, Director
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From: Guido Corona [mailto:guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:57 PM
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Synopsis
Correct. Short summary is just one or max 2 helpful sentences about the
book. And it should not contain personal editorial comments. Be as
factual as possible.
G.
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This is supposed to be a short summary. If you include "idea taken from
Amazon.com" it will cut into your allowed summary length. Amber do you
have no idea what a book is about when you scan it? Just curious.
E.
At 10:01 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
>Guido,
>Would you recommend if we are not good at coming up with summaries of
our
>own, can we go to Amazon.com and look at their summary, then make one
up
>on our own based on that? I wouldn't use the summary directly, but
take
>the main idea, then in quotes at the end of the summary say, "idea
taken
>from amazon.com
>Amber
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