[bookshare-discuss] Re: periodicals on bookshare
- From: "Allison Mervis" <mervisallison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:50:16 -0400
I would like to see the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the site if at all
possible. If memory serves me correctly, it was not available on newsline.
It would be great to be able to read my local paper as easily as everyone
else.
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Scialli" <peter.s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:59 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: periodicals on bookshare
> Hi Gerald,
> You have discovered our soft roll out of NFB Newsline functionality.
It
> is being officially announced at the NFB convention here in Atlanta on
> Saturday. There will be a slowly increasing number of newspapers and
> magazines until we have all the same offerings as the NFB Newsline
service.
> It will be the same content only in Braille and DAISY. It will take a
> period of weeks to get all the permissions worked out as well as the
> technical stuff
> , but we will evntually have about 100 newspapers, including the two that
> you mentioned. We'll also have magazines beyond the New Yorker and the
> Economist. Everyone should consider this a public beta test and use this
> list for comments and suggestions. Thanks.
>
> Peter
> Bookshare.org
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Mackowiak" <gmackowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:46 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] periodicals on bookshare
>
>
> > Last night I discovered a newspaper/periodicals link on the bookshare
home
> page. I was surprised to find that several national periodicals (the New
> Yorker, and USA today) are now available for downloading. It seems to
have
> been there for only a few days, and I think it's great. I haven't heard
it
> mentioned at all on this list. Are the powers that be saving this for a
> surprise?
> > I generally use HTML files for reading bookshare stuff. With the new
> periodicals it is quite easy to skip between articles, at least with Jaws,
> by moving through a headings list.
> > Great job, and I hope we will see more. I vote for the NY Times, and,
> only because I live in the best place on earth, the SF Cronicle.
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