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

[Amanda Lee]

As has been said at least twice on here,

read this please...

Image files are not and I repeat this, image files are not required on
Bookshare.  I am a Volunteer there and I follow the discussions as well as
policy.

Amanda Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgina" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a
page from Napster


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)
>
>Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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>Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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