[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Numbers
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:17:23 -0500
Hi Shelley and everyone!
Yes, that is cool!
It just says:
Bookshare offers more than 70,000 digital books, textbooks,
teacher-recommended
reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools.
Before the new site was launched, I think, there used to be a running total
of books on Bookshare. I remember I'd make a point to check what the count
was whenever I visited the site to brows the new books and/or download
some. It was so exciting to see that count going up every time I visited
the site. I would report the new count to my husband, who was also pleased
to hear it, though he is not a member or volunteer as I am.
Debby
At 08:34 PM 6/9/2010, Shelley L. Rhodes wrote
Cool Scott that is awesome.
I know Scholastic is one of the publishers who has granted publisher
rights so try to find their books if I can.
Hey, do you know what the current count is for Books on the site?
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Bookshare Numbers
It was just announced that we now have 12,000 books available to
international users (4177 of them are public domain books but the rest
are copyrighted.) These books, available also to our US members, are
available to members outside the US because copyright have granted us
international rights. The vast majority are in English.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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