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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of maithe007
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:42 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
No, but I would love to know about it. I have several author friends
who
are Ebook authors and now I am wondering how this will affect them.
Hugs,
Maithe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Goodin" <Goodind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:50 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
> Hi all,
>
> I don't have kids, but am sorry for those of you who do. I wish that
> schools would boycott Nimac books until they get over themselves, but
> that's probably too much to hope for. *smile* Why Nimac can't get
that a
> blind parent might need to have access to their kids' schoolbooks I
just
> can't imagine.
>
> I was sharing this message with my husband, and he mentioned that
there is
> a law about etext that will be going before congress soon. Anyone
know
> anything about this?
> Best,
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: "Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx"<Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: 2/16/08 3:55:34 AM
>>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
>>
>>We lost the battle to make NIMAC-sourced books available to blind
>>parents when we pushed this at the NIMAS/NIMAC committee meetings.
APH
>>has taken a careful view of what can be done with these books, and
the
>>publishers became less flexible as the discussions went on about this
>>because of other decisions they disagreed with. As someone said,
these
>>are political decisions that trade off different interests and access
>>for all suffers a bit in the process.
>>
>>The issue of permissions is a good one, and we're actually hiring for
a
>>full-time position to work with publishers and authors. We'll see
where
>>it leads.
>>
>>These books are beautifully formatted XML that should glide
effortlessly
>>into our collection. We're hoping to see more content like this.
>>
>>Jim
>>
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