When you consider that the books are donated, and volunteers do a good bit of the work, fifty dollars to put each book on the site sounds like a bit much to me. And all the more reason to keep fair rated books off the site, especially considering software available today. Pam Original message: >Hi again: > >Let me point out something that I believe is critical. > >It costs bookshare.org an average of $50 to add each title to the >collection, (staff time, resources, etc) > >This was stated by jim Fruchterman at the NFB convention bookshare users >meeting on July 4. >Note: I didn't ask for any sort of methodology as to how this was >calculated. > >This # crystalized my resolve to "get it right the first time." >I always new that adding a substandard book to the collection only to have >someone rescan it wasted staff and volunteer time that could have gone >elsewhere. >But as we see, it also wastes outright cash. > >I am not saying we shouldn't rescan fair books, that is why I have the >fairbook list on my site. >However, going forward let's try to get it right the first time and not >attack projects with the mindset of "someone can fix it later." >Because usually, someone never does and that book just sits there. > > >-- Rui >BookshareScans > http://members.cox.net/booksharescans >