The primary supplier of accessible books is the RNIB. Each country who signed
up had to provide a supplier.
RNIB were on BBC radio lat year exclaiming that they were just getting it
together.
At the same time the Republic of Ireland had aready imported over a million
books into its service.
We need to complain more, but let us face it we are a joint charitable case,
and the RNIB and the British government, don’t fight for us.
Mary
From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2024 4:52 PM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Marrakesh Treaty
Hi Mary
Please can you explain the connection between the RNIB and the Marrakesh
agreement?
Has the RNIB ratified an international treaty etc with regards to talking books?
Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this topic 😊
Kind regards
Henry
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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2024 3:22 PM
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Subject: [access-uk] The Marrakesh Treaty
Why is the UK and the RNIB lights years behind regarding the Marrakesh
agreement, which was supposed to ensure that we could access books from other
libraries, such as NLS in the USA, Cnib Canada and the Australian library
services? Not even to mention the books in foreign languages, perhaps the UK is
trying to prove that if you live here and are blind, that is your tough luck.
Come on Rnib own up you have failed dramatically!
Mary
