[bookshare-discuss] Re: periodicals on bookshare
- From: "Peter Scialli" <peter.s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:59:49 -0400
Hi Gerald,
You have discovered our soft roll out of NFB Newsline functionality. It
is being officially announced at the NFB convention here in Atlanta on
Saturday. There will be a slowly increasing number of newspapers and
magazines until we have all the same offerings as the NFB Newsline service.
It will be the same content only in Braille and DAISY. It will take a
period of weeks to get all the permissions worked out as well as the
technical stuff
, but we will evntually have about 100 newspapers, including the two that
you mentioned. We'll also have magazines beyond the New Yorker and the
Economist. Everyone should consider this a public beta test and use this
list for comments and suggestions. Thanks.
Peter
Bookshare.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Mackowiak" <gmackowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:46 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] periodicals on bookshare
> Last night I discovered a newspaper/periodicals link on the bookshare home
page. I was surprised to find that several national periodicals (the New
Yorker, and USA today) are now available for downloading. It seems to have
been there for only a few days, and I think it's great. I haven't heard it
mentioned at all on this list. Are the powers that be saving this for a
surprise?
> I generally use HTML files for reading bookshare stuff. With the new
periodicals it is quite easy to skip between articles, at least with Jaws,
by moving through a headings list.
> Great job, and I hope we will see more. I vote for the NY Times, and,
only because I live in the best place on earth, the SF Cronicle.
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