[bookshare-discuss] Re: periodicals on bookshare
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 04:11:10 -0500 (CDT)
This is great! I'm deaf-blind and for years I've wondered when Newsline
would be on the Internet in text form.
John
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Peter Scialli wrote:
> 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
>
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> > 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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