Hey Mik,e Didn't know you were in the area. I've lived in Peoria all my life. Now of course I attend Illinois State in Normal. Small world after all huh? I think the last time I was in Galesberg was two years or something ago when I went camping at Lake Story...I think that's what it is called... Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: papers > Brian > > I think "funding" may be at the heart why some states have plenty of > papers and others do not. > It also may have something to do with publishing groups. > Rick earlier mentioned the Peoria Journal Star. > The Journal Star, along with our Galesburg Register Mail, are Copely > papers. > Odds favor that if one or more of a group's papers become part of NFB > NewsLine; others are to follow. > Put together the issue of funding plus who happens to publish a specific > paper, and I think that will explain a lot. > > As far as BookShare goes, this is still labeled a beta. Also, as the > papers come from Newsline, BookShare cannot have access to anything that > isn't a part of BookShare. > > >