[bksvol-discuss] Press Release: Childrens Books on Bookshare
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 13:30:31 -0400
Bookshare Partnership Will Serve Visually Impaired Young Readers
PRESS RELEASE
via
www.PRweb.com
Bookshare to Offer Children's Books from Sharing-Books.com
Partnership
Will Serve Visually Impaired Young Readers
Bookshare.org is the leading on-line library for the visually
impaired.
Sharing-Books.com is a leading on-line publisher of new children
books.
The two companies announce that the children books published by
sharing-books.com will be added to the Bookshare library for the
benefit
of visually impaired children.
Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) May 5, 2009 -- Bookshare and Shared Books
Ltd of
Vancouver BC are pleased to announce a partnership that will
expand the
availability of children books in the Bookshare library.
Shared Books, which operates the Sharing-Books.com website, has
agreed
to allow children's books published on Sharing-Books.com to be
added to
the Bookshare collection. This initiative will increase the
number of
children's books accessible to readers with print disabilities
and
provide an opportunity for authors published on Sharing-Books.com
to
offer their works to a new group of valued readers.
Schools around the world have signed up their qualified students
for
Bookshare and many parents have registered their children with
qualifying disabilities for individual Bookshare memberships.
The number
of new Bookshare school and student members increased tenfold in
2008.
More than 47,000 people with print disabilities now subscribe to
the
Bookshare library.
This partnership will allow Bookshare to continue to expand its
collection of books for young readers who remain a critically
important
group within our membership. Sharing-Books.com is on the
forefront of
providing these texts in a digital format.
"The children's books provided by Sharing-Books.com will be
available to
Bookshare members worldwide," says Bookshare CEO Jim Fruchterman.
"This
partnership will allow Bookshare to continue to expand its
collection of
books for young readers who remain a critically important group
within
our membership. Sharing-Books.com is on the forefront of
providing these
texts in a digital format."
"Having some personal experience with technology that serves the
visually impaired, I was thrilled to see our authors being able
to
contribute content to Bookshare's impressive library," said
Pierre
Lapointe, CEO of Shared Books. Our team's enthusiasm for
Bookshare is
unanimous. We want more people to read more books. Technology
has an
important role to play in reaching all potential readers."
About Bookshare
Bookshare is operated by Benetech, a Palo Alto, CA-based
non-profit
technology organization.
Bookshare offers people with print disabilities more than 47,000
books
and 150 daily periodicals in accessible formats including
Braille, large
print and synthetic speech. People with print disabilities
include
readers who are blind or have low vision, learning disabilities
or a
mobility impairment that prevents them from reading a traditional
printed book. In 2007, Bookshare received a
$32 million five-year award from the U.S. Department of
Education's
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to give all U.S.
students
with qualifying print disabilities free access to the Bookshare
library.
About Sharing-Books.com
Sharing-Books.com is an innovative business model combining
private
enterprise and social goals.
Sharing-Books.com authors receive a third of the revenues of the
company
as royalties. Another third of Sharing-Books.com revenues are
given to
Room to Read, a charity that equips developing nations with
literacy
resources. The company operates an ultra lean virtual business
model
with the other third of its revenues. Sharing-Books.com disrupts
the
traditional publishing cycle by giving new authors and new books
an
immediate publishing venue. The Sharing-Books.com model
identifies
promising books and characters for the paper publishing, gaming,
movie,
and toy industries.
Contacts:
Ann Harrison
Benetech
415-637-5262
ann.h (at) benetech.org
Maggie Kerr-Southin
Sharing-Books.com
250-595-0136
Maggie (at) artemispr.com
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