[bookshare-discuss] Re: Somewhat Off Topic But Interesting on Amazon Kindle
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:41:43 EST
I think the efforts you are describing are already being made by Bookshare
with its publisher liaison. Some publishers are contributing their electronic
texts and they are identified in the collection as publisher quality books. A
really exciting prospect to me, though, is that, in response to a question I
asked, I found out that Bookshare is in ongoing talks with Google to get access
to the seven million books they have in electronic format. If that comes to
anything I don't know when it will be, but it has the potential to surpass
Amazon's Kindle store real quickly.
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[bookshare-discuss] Somewhat Off Topic But Interesting on Amazon Kindle
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So,
I recognize this is kind of off topic but I noticed in an announcement about
the Amazon Kindle 2 that it now will read books outloud. I'm pretty sure
this still wouldn't be usable to people who are blind but what I found
interesting is a comment that they already have 230000 books available to be
read outloud.
My guess is that many of the books in the Bookshare library are already in
the Kindle store. We really need to find a way to end the need to scan
books to make them accessible on a large scale.
I know different efforts are underway but I'd be willing to bet Amazon gets
1000000 books available on the Kindle before we get 100000 books on
Bookshare.
Please don't take any of this as a criticism of Bookshare. I love what the
effort has been able to do and happily contribute my scans and such.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI/ref=sv_kinc_0
Kelly
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