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

[TALMAGE at SOMTEL.COM]

I understood them to say that they would take the image files in addition
to the file that has already been converted to either  rtf, txt, doc, etc.
They just want the images on hand in case ocr improves significantly. I too
would question the value of trying to maintain image files in any quantity,
you would need enough to make it worth while to even bother, but not so
many that your storage and band width are taken up by storing and
uploading.  All in all I think it is a bad idea.

Dave Talmage

At 03:34 PM 3/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>They don't require image files.  They will accept image files but will
>hold these until they have the proper technology to convert these into an
>accessible electronic format.  I questioned their acceptance of Image
>files because they are huge and am concerned about their running out of
>storage space for these pigs.  I cringe about it but if this is the only
>way they can receive a book, in moderation, I suppose this isn't all bad.