I just went to the bookshare new books site and found several "publisher quality" books. Frankly, if I can't read them, they aren't in the collection for me, so, I'd rather not see them if I'm not rated for k-12.
It's like going to a library and having them say "we have all these books, but not for you."
Plus, if things go as bookshare plans, I suspect that the number of books in the new books with publisher quality will increase, thus making it more than just an anoyance to skip them.
In short, give me a way to filter them out of my search, or, better still, just don't show them to me.
Just my thoughts. Bob----- Original Message ----- From: <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:55 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
We lost the battle to make NIMAC-sourced books available to blind parents when we pushed this at the NIMAS/NIMAC committee meetings. APH has taken a careful view of what can be done with these books, and the publishers became less flexible as the discussions went on about this because of other decisions they disagreed with. As someone said, these are political decisions that trade off different interests and access for all suffers a bit in the process. The issue of permissions is a good one, and we're actually hiring for a full-time position to work with publishers and authors. We'll see where it leads. These books are beautifully formatted XML that should glide effortlessly into our collection. We're hoping to see more content like this. Jim To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1282 - Release Date: 2/15/2008 7:08 PM
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