[bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:09:45 -0700
Hi Donna and all,
I would certainly trust Jim as being an authority on this entire process,
and I would also trust that he and others did everything possible to make it
happen. The recipient of the material must both have a print disability and
be a K-12 child. Right now, I would say that a blind parent should focus
their advocacy efforts on their school system. If it desired, I'm sure the
school could purchase a copy of the book and get special written permission
from the publisher for it to be released to the blind parent by NIMAC, or
the publisher could just send the file on their own. Ultimately, I have
found through my advocacy that if I speak and write with enough people and,
ultimately, talk about something often and loudly enough to as many relevant
folks as possible, I tend to get positive action in many situations.
Also, now that NIMAC exists, there's an infrastructure in place for
delivering this material. I'm wondering if state legislation could release
it to blind parents? If the education officials in a particular state are
only allowed to purchase materials from publishers who would allow release
of accessible books to both children and parents with print disabilities,
then I'd imagine publishers would want to comply with that state's law in
order to continue doing business. Keep in mind that this could be done
while taking little or no funding from a state's budget, after all, we're
talking about a state's not spending money rather than spending. It
shouldn't hurt education in the state as most publishers would immediately
want to jump aboard as soon as the law were signed.
I have a blind friend with two teenage sons. His inability to acquire most
of the books in an accessible format is serving to diminish his ability to
assist his children with their homework, etc. IMHO, there's absolutely no
excuse for that state of affairs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Goodin" <goodind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:57 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
I'll see what I can find out. My husband pays a lot of attention to this,
so I'm sure he'll eventually read the proposed law.
Donna
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> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of maithe007
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> 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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