[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:00:26 -0400
I'm willing to do it gratis. I like the tax deduction idea.
Prat
Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:20 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
Maybe we could find one who would do it gratis and
deduct his/her usual fee from his/her taxes as a
charitable contribution. I'll keep my eyes and ears
open.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If that were true, press agents would be out of a
> job. Bookshare says it
> does not hav sufficient grant money and certainly
> not enough to support
> itself out of user fees. A press agent might be
> able to get us noticed by
> publishers, authors, and foundations. Sounded like
> a good idea to me Cindy.
>
> E.
>
>
> At 08:02 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
>
> >You are our press agents..... There is nothing
> better than word-of-mouth
> >by happy users.
> >
> >Janice
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Cindy
> >Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:18 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Braille Harry Potter
> >
> >I had hope this article, and others like it that I
> saw
> >on google news, would mention bookshare, but it
> >didn't. Still it's interesting that NBP is making
> the
> >book available quickly. I think bookshare needs a
> >press agent to get similar articles into
> newspapers.
> >
> >Cindy
> >
> >The long wait is over for Harry Potter's blind fans
> >By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Writer |
> July
> >12, 2005
> >
> >BOSTON --Like millions of Harry Potter fans,
> Katherine
> >Moss can't wait to get her fingers on a copy of the
> >sixth entry in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series.
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> >And for once, the 16-year-old blind student won't
> have
> >to wait months longer than her sighted friends to
> dive
> >into "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
> >The book goes on sale at midnight Friday. A Braille
> >edition is due out three days later -- much earlier
> >than with previous Harry Potter books, thanks to a
> new
> >arrangement between the publisher, Scholastic Inc.,
> >and the National Braille Press in Boston.
> >Moss, a student at the Perkins School for the Blind
> in
> >Watertown, doesn't want the book read aloud to her.
> >She wants to savor each word of the text at her own
> >pace.
> >"When I read it in Braille, it takes me a lot
> longer,"
> >she said. "That's a good thing. Usually, I don't
> want
> >it to end. That's how much of a reader I am."
> >For the first time, Scholastic provided the
> National
> >Braille Press with an advance copy of the Harry
> Potter
> >book, which is kept under tight wraps.
> >For the past two weeks, more than four dozen
> employees
> >at the Boston printing house have been working
> >overtime to print a batch of 800 Braille copies of
> the
> >"Half-Blood Prince."
> >Tanya Holton, NBP's vice president of development,
> >said it usually takes months, if not a year or two,
> >for published books to make it into Braille form.
> >"This is the only book we have blitzed like this
> >before, because readers are clamoring for it,"
> Holton
> >said.
> >At 1,100 pages, the Braille edition is nearly twice
> as
> >long as the hardcover version. It comes in nine
> >volumes, takes up 13 1/2 inches of shelf space and
> >weighs about 11 pounds.
> >Each Braille book costs $62 to produce, but the
> >nonprofit NBP is selling them for $17.99 -- the
> same
> >as Amazon.com, according to Holton. A local lumber
> >retailer donated $100,000 to help make up the
> >difference.
> >"This is not about charity. It's about parity,"
> Holton
> >said. "We're not here to make a profit. We're here
> to
> >get books in the hands of children. A blind kid
> >deserves the same books as a sighted child."
> >A blind reader's options are relatively limited,
> >however. Only 500 to 600 new Braille titles are
> >published each year -- only about 1 percent of all
> >books published, according to Kim Charlson, the
> >Perkins School's library director.
> >"Braille is such an important skill," said
> Charlson,
> >who is blind. "Nothing compares to a kid being able
> to
> >read for themselves."
> >Moss is still waiting for a Braille version of
> >Katherine Paterson's "Lyddie," a 1991 book about a
> >young girl's struggle to survive poverty in
> >19th-century New England.
> >"A lot of books aren't available in Braille," she
> >said. "I don't like that. I don't like that at
> all."
> >At the Perkins School, the waiting list for the new
> >Harry Potter book already has at least two dozen
> >names. More than 300 people have pre-ordered the
> book
> >from NBP.
> >"It's so important for blind children to have
> access
> >to the same cultural phenomena at the same time as
> >their peers," Holton said.
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