[tabi] announcement of I-phone book from NBP; and survey about what books you'd like to see NBP produce

  • From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:30:05 -0500

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> From: blindtech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:blindtech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Dean Martineau
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:56 AM
> To: blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: (BlindTech) What computer books would you buy if 
> they existed?
> 
> good morning. Most of you are probably familiar with National 
> Braille Press. They produce bffordable braille books, both 
> paper and electronic. the book on the iPhone which I 
> co-authored with Anna Dresner will be coming out sometime in 
> the next month, for instance. The electronic versions are 
> increasingly available as DAISY, and are also available as 
> plain text, so braille knowledge isn't necessary to benefit from them.
> 
> As I write their books nowadays, I am unofficially asking 
> what kinds of computer books you would like to see, and       
>    would buy. We are working on Office 2010 Reference cards 
> now. What else would you like to see? What would most help 
> the people you work with? 
> 
> Let me stress that this is my own information-gathering 
> initiative. Any information i get will be looked at, but I am 
> asking, not NBP. NBP charges as little as they can for books, 
> but they have to have some notion that a book will sell "so 
> copies, enough to make it not too much of a losing 
> proposition, before they write it. 
> 
> It is probably best that you reply to me individually about 
> this as it isn't really a matter of discussion. I can send a 
> summary of responses if I get some.
> 
> Thanks for thinking about it.
> 
> Dean
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