[bookport] Re: Harry Potter #7
- From: "Jeanette Beal" <bealjk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:35:54 -0400
Damn kids, chill it down would ya? You're all getting bent out of shape
over something that sounds like an NFB/ACB contest. The truth of the matter
is life sucks and then you die, or if you're a sightie life sucks and then
you go blind. Either way, bickering about it amongst ourselves because some
feel that sighties are justified (or whatever) and some feel that we've got
a low lot in life (or whatever) doesn't get us anywhere. It just sends the
same message back to those with the privilege and power (Foucault-style, if
you will) to keep wallowing in their own
inaccessible-to-us-but-some-of-us-pretend-we-can-manage-because-we-are-super-blinks
world.
PUHLEASE.
- Jeanette
On 7/21/07, Walt Smith <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And exactly how much do you seriously believe that saving the cost of the
> print manual would reduce the overall cost? Get a life or, at least, a
> realistic grasp on relative manufacturing costs. Now, what *really* costs
> big bucks is the braille manual that some folks demand at the tops of
> their
> lungs and *that's* an expense that I refuse to pay. If people want a
> braille
> manual and the vendor is nice enough to offer one, let them pay for the
> paper and production costs.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of David Tanner
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 3:03 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Harry Potter #7
>
> Yes, and I also know how much it costs for paper, and printing presses,
> and
> shipping as opposed to putting an electronic file on a website. And,
> while
> we are talking about it; I really get upset with access software product
> companies that include a nice thick print manual and all sorts of other
> print material in their packaging, and then tell the blind user that the
> manual is in a text file on the program cd.
>
> Well, if we can read the text file version of the manual then why can't
> the
> sighted person, and save the price of the print manual and lower the price
> of the software.
>
>
>
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