[bksvol-discuss] Re: How To Fast Track Your Submissions
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:26:39 -0700 (PDT)
Jackie,
Others have pointed out that rtf is the preferred
format now--and you can work in Word and then just
bvefore submission convert to rtf and everything,
i.e., page breaks and bold and italics, will be saved.
But if you like validating, don't worry about the
week's deadline. No one can carefully validate a book
in a week. You can renew ad often as necessary. Count
seven days, including the day you download the book.
Then, on that day or a day or two before, when you go
to upload, you will see 3 choices--upload, release, or
renew. When you click on renew you have the book for
another seven days from the day you renewed.
Cindy
--- "Jackie M." <xercon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Monica,
>
> Good suggestions, Monica! I agree with them all ...
> except that, concerning
> your first suggestion, the instructions for
> submitters suggests that using
> the .ark or .kes formats is preferable - at least,
> that's the way I read it.
> I have a book that I am about ready to try to submit
> - my first submission -
> and I did it in .ark because I thought the
> instructions say that Bookshare
> prefers the .ark or .kes, if possible. I guess
> because the page breaks,
> etc. are better and match the original book. I
> personally would prefer
> Word. Up to now, I have validated books, but I am
> tired of trying to meet
> the week time requirements, as I work full-time and
> only have short blocks
> of time to devote to validating. So I thought I
> would try to submit: that
> way I'm on my own timeframe.
>
> - Jackie McCraw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Monica Willyard
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
> bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:59 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] How To Fast Track Your
> Submissions
>
>
> Hi everybody. Since I know we have several
> awesome book submitters
> on these lists who don't validate books, I thought
> I'd write a short
> post on how to get your books approved quickly.
> If you have a
> Bookshare friend who doesn't use the lists, please
> let them know
> about this too. I know of 4 small but important
> things you can do to
> get your book submission into the express lane.
> Even making one of
> these small changes will greatly improve the speed
> at which your book
> will be added to the collection. Ready? Here we
> go!
>
> 1. When possible, submit your book in rtf format.
> Bookshare does
> accept books in formats like Openbook and
> Kurzweil. However, many of
> our volunteers don't own those programs. That
> means your book hangs
> out on the validation page until someone who owns
> your program can
> get to it. Rtf is a format that almost all of the
> volunteers can
> handle easily. Both Openbook and Kurzweil can
> save your book as an
> rtf file. If you need help with this, just ask
> for help on the list.
>
> 2. When you submit your book, please give it at
> least a short
> description in one of the synopsis fields. When a
> volunteer can find
> out what your book is about, they are often more
> interested in
> reading it. Most volunteers prefer to work on
> books about subjects
> they enjoy, so your synopsis about the book
> matters. It doesn't have
> to be fancy. Just pretend that you're telling a
> good friend what the
> book is about.
>
> 3. When you submit a book, you will see a field
> for comments right
> before you submit the book. If you will put your
> email address in
> there, the person who validates your book can
> contact you if there is
> a problem with your book. Otherwise, if your book
> has a problem, the
> validater will either have to reject it, try to
> find you through the
> list, or has to spend his or her own time going to
> a library to get
> the print book to fix the problem. Can you see
> how this can slow
> down approval of your book? This isn't an
> official Bookshare
> requirement. It's something you do so you can
> work as part of a team
> with the validater for your book.
>
> 4. Lastly, when you've submitted your book, post
> about it to the
> list. Letting people know the book is available
> may get a
> volunteer's attention. New books don't always
> appear at the top of
> the list of books awaiting validation, so this
> simple step is a
> powerful way for you to let people know about your
> book.
>
> I hope these ideas help you. I appreciate the
> work that each of you
> does in building Bookshare. I'm looking forward
> to validating more
> of your books in the future, and I'll keep an eye
> out for those of
> you in the fast lane. (grin)
>
>
> Monica Willyard
>
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