[bksvol-discuss] Re: User cannot download NIMAC sourced book
- From: "Donna Goodin" <Goodind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:50:48 -0500
Hi all,
I don't have kids, but am sorry for those of you who do. I wish that schools
would boycott Nimac books until they get over themselves, but that's probably
too much to hope for. *smile* Why Nimac can't get that a blind parent might
need to have access to their kids' schoolbooks I just can't imagine.
I was sharing this message with my husband, and he mentioned that there is a
law about etext that will be going before congress soon. Anyone know anything
about this?
Best,
Donna
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx"<Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: 2/16/08 3:55:34 AM
>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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
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