To be brought up on Monday. Marissa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kenneth A. Cross Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:07 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest Those are great points, and I wish BookShare would make some kind of reply. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:13 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and student contest > There is a degree of irony in all this. BookShare spends much of its > resources going after the school and student market. > Yet, it continues, through the use of its stripper, to perform a major > disservice to that very market. > > Jake may have hit upon the best solution of incorporating the stripper > into the unpacking utility. > That way, one could strip a book when desired or avoid it similarily. > And if one kept their unpacked copies of books, one could have the best of > both worlds with the same book as circumstances dictated. > > There may be problems with Jake's proposed solution. We do not know who > owns the rights to the stripper whether it is BookShare itself or if it's > a 3rd party. > If the latter, that entity would have to give BeneTech a licensing > agreement for such use. > If the former, Benetech might not want to include the coding into an > outside product. > > If this isn't an issue, then there is the important point of rewriting the > unpack utility. > Does BookShare have the resources (and would it be willing to commit them) > for such a project? > > > >