Well, I certainly was not around during the first couple of years of
Bookshare and Madeleine can correct me if I am wrong, but I kind of
doubt that a scan that was done for the submitter would be
prohibited. After all, if the submitter never mentions it then how
would anyone ever know.
On 6/19/2012 1:44 PM, Deborah Murray wrote:
Hi Roger,
Actually, what I'm not quite remembering happened
before you were a part of the volunteer community at
BookShare--probably in the first couple of years. I think it
was a similar situation--that someone wanted to submit books
that had been scanned for them by their disability services
office at school. But, what I can't remember is whether the
real issue was that the books were not complete with all
copyright info etc, or rather that the books were scanned by
someone else and not the volunteer.
Hopefully, Madeleine or
The context in which it came up before was the issue of
submitting ebooks. Those are not permitted and the rule that
was mentioned was that a submission should be a hard copy that
has been scanned. I think it was worded such that you should
scan it yourself, but that was just the wording and did not
anticipate that someone might scan a book for another person.
I am sure that if it is a hard copy book that has been scanned
it is okay. You do make another good point though. Be sure
that you check the collection to see if a book you are
contemplating submitting is already there. Without looking
myself I did notice that some of the titles mentioned were
titles that were very likely to already be in the collection.
On 6/19/2012 7:05 AM, Deborah Murray wrote:
Hi Dornetta,
I'd definitely wait for an answer from BookShare on whether
you can submit a book you didn't personally scan. I vaguely
remember something like that came up early on and I don't
remember how it was finally resolved.
Lies My Teacher Told Me... is already in the collection
with an excellent rating.
Deborah
I posed this question another volunteer who suggested
that I ask the list so here it goes. I have several books
that the disability office at school has scanned for me,
the books are textbooks for the Early Childhood
Development and School Age Child degree program. I was
reading through the safe publisher's list and that several
of the publishers of these books are in the safe column.
My question is this, if I clean up the scans is it ethical
for me to upload them to bookshare providing that I did
not do the scans myself? These are very informative
textbooks that can also be read as stand-alone books for
those who wish to do so.
I also have a book called, "Lies my Teacher Told Me:
Everything Your History Got Wrong" and "The Traveling
Pants"(which is a book about the eco-friendly deham
jeans.) Both of these were used as "readers" (stand alone
text) for my sociology class. Oh yea, how could I forget
about the World Religion book (I just forgot the name is
all-but this was also a stand alone book for the sociology
class)
"Just because you are blind does not mean you lack
vision"-Stevie Wonder
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