Hi Eleanor, What course are you studying? If it is History, i might be able to help. Take care James, Lyn, Nash and Twinny ----- Original Message ----- From: ELEANOR BURKE To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:56 PM Subject: [access-uk] The Open university course Materials in Alternative Format I wrote to the list before about the Open University and how I felt that my needs were not being met as a blind student. My problems are on-going. I was informed by the Open University that the text book on my course could not be provided in alternative format as there were difficulties with the publishers and that was the situation and I would have to put up with it. I then decided that I needed to write to the publishers directly and received a response from them today. See below. Dear Eleanor & Guide Dog Neela, Thank you for your email. I have been in contact with the Publishing Department and they tell me that there is no problem with you having an electronic version of this book. We already supply electronic copies to the Open University for all student textbooks that they buy from us, so its unusual to hear that they cannot provide it to you. If the OU cannot give you access then please ask your Course Tutor or Librarian to email or write to us requesting this on your behalf. This is the usual process with all electronic versions of text books. If you choose this option then we will charge you the cover price of the book. Kind regards Margaret Customer Services Sweet & Maxwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1608 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.