[bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest

  • From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:59:09 -0800

To be brought up on Monday. 

Marissa 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest

Those are great points, and I wish BookShare would make some kind of
reply.
----- Original Message ----- 
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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