FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Georgina]

Hi

Can that type of set up meet their requirements in terms of the required image 
file?


Gena



>Oh, I don't know, Gina. Maybe they could use a ten year old scanner, linux 
>and sane and gocr, like I do.
>
>
>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georgina wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> Please see my message on the cost of producing these books.  To say that 
>> someone with low income can recooperate some or all of their costs is got to
 
>> be missleading.
>> 
>> As you already know my feelings on the cost of K1000 there's no need for me 
>> to go into that but if someone can't afford a scanner and K1000 or even Open
 
>> Book Ruby, how are they going to recooperate some or all of the cost?
>> 
>> Surely, corretcing is out of the question too?  Firstly, they'd have to go 
>> and buy the book and then be able to compare words and other symbols on the 
>> screen with that on the printed pages of the book.
>> 
>> Furthermore, that's if they can afford to use Windows to use the above ocr 
>> packages.  I understood that the image files were also required, thus only 
>> Windows users might and I say might be the only ones to be able to submit 
>> scanned material.  What is the required format?
>> 
>> It'll be very interesting to see how many people will be in a position to 
>> submit material to the project.
>> 
>> Gena
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >Actually, the cost is $50 per year.  First year there is a $25 setup fee.
>> >But as stated, if you contribute by submitting books that you scan,
>> >correct errors and do what they call Publish to submit books already
>> >uploaded and/or do what is known as Basic Publish whereby you clean-up
>> >their database to reflect appropriate information about the entried
>> >therein, you earn fifty cents per title.  To download and correct a book,
>> >you earn $2.50.  Do ten of those per year, you earn half of your annual
>> >membership.
>> >
>> >So, there are ways that a person with limited income resources can benefit
>> >and still use the service.
>> >
>> >Amanda Lee
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>				Janina Sajka, Director
>				Technology Research and Development
>				Governmental Relations Group
>				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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>Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
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