[bookshare-discuss] Re: Somewhat Off Topic But Interesting on Amazon Kindle
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:31:39 -0700
ah, remember the bad old days when you came home and ran to your mailbox,
hoping, hoping a new talkingbook would be there, and desperately hoping it
would be one of the books you requested, not some totally uninteresting
nonsense.
Book Share, Unabridged, digital talkingbooks, audible, I feel like a lottery
winner.
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From: unknown Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 19:42:07
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Somewhat Off Topic But Interesting on Amazon
Kindle
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> 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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> "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various
> ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx
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> So,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI/ref=sv_kinc_0
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> Kelly
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