[bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest
- From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:07:14 -0500
Those are great points, and I wish BookShare would make some kind of reply.
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From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest
> There is a degree of irony in all this. BookShare spends much of its
> resources going after the school and student market.
> Yet, it continues, through the use of its stripper, to perform a major
> disservice to that very market.
>
> Jake may have hit upon the best solution of incorporating the stripper
> into the unpacking utility.
> That way, one could strip a book when desired or avoid it similarily.
> And if one kept their unpacked copies of books, one could have the best of
> both worlds with the same book as circumstances dictated.
>
> There may be problems with Jake's proposed solution. We do not know who
> owns the rights to the stripper whether it is BookShare itself or if it's
> a 3rd party.
> If the latter, that entity would have to give BeneTech a licensing
> agreement for such use.
> If the former, Benetech might not want to include the coding into an
> outside product.
>
> If this isn't an issue, then there is the important point of rewriting the
> unpack utility.
> Does BookShare have the resources (and would it be willing to commit them)
> for such a project?
>
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