[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tips For New Submitters
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
Well-put, Monica! Nicely done!
Cindy
-- On Sat, 7/5/08, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Tips For New Submitters
> To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 9:23 AM
> Hi, everyone. We have some awesome new volunteers, and I
> thought I'd
> post this to let people know how they can get their book
> submissions
> processed
> more quickly. Also, if you have a friend who isn't on
> this list and who
> scans books, would you please send this along? It will
> help
> your friend and us as a community too.
>
> Fast-tracking your book submission is pretty easy. Here
> are five tips,
> any of which will help to speed up the approval time for
> your book. Doo
> all five and
> you'll race through like a Nascar driver. (grin) If
> you have questions
> about how to do any of this, please either ask on the lists
> or write to
> Bookshare. You can also email me directly at
> rhyami@xxxxxxxxx if you're
> not part of the Bookshare lists. I'm not a staff
> member. I'm a
> volunteer who has been around on Bookshare for over 2
> years.
>
> 1. Before you submit your book, take a few minutes to make
> sure all the
> pages are there and that there is a copyright notice in the
> book. This
> step is the most important because this is where roughly
> half of the
> books that are rejected fall down. So if you ace this one,
> you're way
> ahead of the pack.
>
> 2. Submit your book in rtf format. If you do this, your
> books will have
> the best chance of finding an interested validater who has
> the ability
> to open
> your file. If you submit a book in ark, wyn, or kes
> formats, only some
> of our volunteers have software that can handle these
> files. Almost
> every volunteer
> can handle rtf, and there are well over a hundred active
> volunteers.
> Openbook, Kurzweil, and Wyn Wizard can all save scans as
> rtf files.
> Just scan your book as usual and then save it as rtf once
> you've
> finished scanning.
>
> 3. Include at least a short synopsis when you upload your
> book.
> Volunteers are just like anyone else. We want to know
> what a book is
> about before we
> decide to dedicate our time to processing it. You
> don't have to be
> fancy. Just tell us a little bit about the book to capture
> our attention.
>
> 4. Consider putting either your email address or some other
> contact info
> such as which Bookshare list people can find you on in the
> comments
> section of
> the upload form. This is only visible to volunteers and
> the site
> administrator and won't be made public when your book
> is added to the
> Bookshare collection.
> Why should you do this? Sometimes books are rejected for
> simple things
> like 1 missing page, a missing copyright date, or confusion
> over the
> correct title
> of the book. If the person working on your book can
> contact you, he/she
> can resolve the problem quickly and get your book into the
> system. No
> dreary
> rejection notices and resubmissions. (smile) If we
> can't contact you,
> we have to reject books with missing pages. We don't
> like rejecting
> books and do all we can to make sure every book is
> approved.
>
> 5. Send a post about your book submission to the Bookshare
> Volunteers
> mailing list. People don't always check the website
> for new books each
> day, but
> an email from you will interest at least one person from
> the list. As
> you make friends and build up a reputation for submitting
> good books,
> people will
> begin to look out for your work and will help you get your
> book approved
> even if it's not necessarily their normal genre of
> reading material.
> We're a
> community of people who help each other and work as a big
> family. We do
> care about your success as a submitter, and it makes
> Bookshare a better
> place since we work as a team.
>
> So make sure your book is complete, submit in rtf, give us
> a synopsis,
> provide some contact info, and speak up when you've got
> a new book
> posted to the system. If you do this, your book will be on
> the fast
> track for approval, and you'll see it in the Bookshare
> collection soon.
> If you need help with any of this, there are a lot of
> people ready and
> willing to help you. Thanks for your time reading this and
> for your
> time scanning books for us.
>
>
> --
> Monica Willyard
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