[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:05:10 -0500
Hey Shelley,
You might try snipping and/or editing from the About Us page.
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SupportAboutUs.html
Or have a look at the bottom of an acceptance notice and some short
summaries of BookShare are given that you might adapt. If you do end up
creating something let me know and I'd be glad to post it on my website for
others to have access to.
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
> On the Same thread.
>
> Is there any way in the future to create a short but well detailed, smile,
> description of what bookshare does and how it works, that say I could hand
> out to my students.
>
> I have them for another two weeks, and they want information.
>
> I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so if there is something.
>
> Could we make it available on the site somewhere, something we could print
> out, or Braille and hand out.
>
> My Guide Dog school does this type of publicity using their grads nd it
> works well.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:03 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
>
>
> Press releases are one of the ways folks can get public notice without
> paying for advertising.
>
> You are correct in thinking our own words might be used in such a press
> release. Our involvement in the Harry Potter phenomenon might capture
> someone's imagination and result in that person's writing a new article,
> making us away of foundation money for a non-proffit or if he is an
author,
> offering us his books for the site.
>
> Would official bookshare please consider such a press release particularly
> given Harry Potter craze? We love bookshare and some of think this a good
> opportunity.
>
>
> At 08:10 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
> >If that were true, press agents would be out of a job. Bookshare says it
> >does not hav sufficient grant money and certainly not enough to support
> >itself out of user fees. A press agent might be able to get us noticed
by
> >publishers, authors, and foundations. Sounded like a good idea to me
> >Cindy.
> >
> >E.
> >
> >
> >At 08:02 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
> >
> >>You are our press agents..... There is nothing better than
word-of-mouth
> >>by happy users.
> >>
> >>Janice
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
> >>Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:18 PM
> >>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Braille Harry Potter
> >>
> >>I had hope this article, and others like it that I saw
> >>on google news, would mention bookshare, but it
> >>didn't. Still it's interesting that NBP is making the
> >>book available quickly. I think bookshare needs a
> >>press agent to get similar articles into newspapers.
> >>
> >>Cindy
> >>
> >>The long wait is over for Harry Potter's blind fans
> >>By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Writer | July
> >>12, 2005
> >>
> >>BOSTON --Like millions of Harry Potter fans, Katherine
> >>Moss can't wait to get her fingers on a copy of the
> >>sixth entry in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series.
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> >>And for once, the 16-year-old blind student won't have
> >>to wait months longer than her sighted friends to dive
> >>into "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
> >>The book goes on sale at midnight Friday. A Braille
> >>edition is due out three days later -- much earlier
> >>than with previous Harry Potter books, thanks to a new
> >>arrangement between the publisher, Scholastic Inc.,
> >>and the National Braille Press in Boston.
> >>Moss, a student at the Perkins School for the Blind in
> >>Watertown, doesn't want the book read aloud to her.
> >>She wants to savor each word of the text at her own
> >>pace.
> >>"When I read it in Braille, it takes me a lot longer,"
> >>she said. "That's a good thing. Usually, I don't want
> >>it to end. That's how much of a reader I am."
> >>For the first time, Scholastic provided the National
> >>Braille Press with an advance copy of the Harry Potter
> >>book, which is kept under tight wraps.
> >>For the past two weeks, more than four dozen employees
> >>at the Boston printing house have been working
> >>overtime to print a batch of 800 Braille copies of the
> >>"Half-Blood Prince."
> >>Tanya Holton, NBP's vice president of development,
> >>said it usually takes months, if not a year or two,
> >>for published books to make it into Braille form.
> >>"This is the only book we have blitzed like this
> >>before, because readers are clamoring for it," Holton
> >>said.
> >>At 1,100 pages, the Braille edition is nearly twice as
> >>long as the hardcover version. It comes in nine
> >>volumes, takes up 13 1/2 inches of shelf space and
> >>weighs about 11 pounds.
> >>Each Braille book costs $62 to produce, but the
> >>nonprofit NBP is selling them for $17.99 -- the same
> >>as Amazon.com, according to Holton. A local lumber
> >>retailer donated $100,000 to help make up the
> >>difference.
> >>"This is not about charity. It's about parity," Holton
> >>said. "We're not here to make a profit. We're here to
> >>get books in the hands of children. A blind kid
> >>deserves the same books as a sighted child."
> >>A blind reader's options are relatively limited,
> >>however. Only 500 to 600 new Braille titles are
> >>published each year -- only about 1 percent of all
> >>books published, according to Kim Charlson, the
> >>Perkins School's library director.
> >>"Braille is such an important skill," said Charlson,
> >>who is blind. "Nothing compares to a kid being able to
> >>read for themselves."
> >>Moss is still waiting for a Braille version of
> >>Katherine Paterson's "Lyddie," a 1991 book about a
> >>young girl's struggle to survive poverty in
> >>19th-century New England.
> >>"A lot of books aren't available in Braille," she
> >>said. "I don't like that. I don't like that at all."
> >>At the Perkins School, the waiting list for the new
> >>Harry Potter book already has at least two dozen
> >>names. More than 300 people have pre-ordered the book
> >>from NBP.
> >>"It's so important for blind children to have access
> >>to the same cultural phenomena at the same time as
> >>their peers," Holton said.
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