I agree about supporting Project Gutenberg. For info, google maintains quite a good list of
electronic text archives at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/
We could use some kind of global search engine for all these!
UK publishers need to be pressured to produce accessible versions of their books on publication.
Ian Francis
On 28 Feb 2002 at 12:15, Bernard Doherty wrote:
> Dear folks
>
> This is a nice idea, but it is only worth pursuing (paying for) if the
> library is comprehensive. As an indication, this site has no work by
> Martin Amis and two books by Kingsley. To my mind, it's just too
> small: any particular title you think of is more likely not to be there
> than otherwise. In general, I think it would be a better idea to
> support the Gutenberg project (http://www.promo.net/pg/), not least
> because it's free and open to everyone. Of course, everyone included
> has been dead for a good long time.
>
> Regards, Bernard
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:31:33 -0000 GIBBERD DEBORAH
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> > Thought others might like to know about this service, which could
> > be useful for certain students - getting good academic material
> > relies on it also being used by VI college students in the US.
> >
> > A new American website, Bookshare.org, will allow blind people
> > and people with visual impairments to share books that they've
> > scanned.
> >
> > Inspired by Napster, Bookshare falls under a 1996 amendment to
> > the copyright law that allows certain organisations to distribute
> > literary works in specialised formats exclusively for use by disabled
> > people.
> >
> > The site requires written proof of disability, and it encrypts each
> > book, electronically stamping it so it can be traced.
> >
> > The service costs fifty US dollars a year or an equivalent amount of
> > time volunteering on the site.
> >
> > The Association of American Publishers, wary of possible
> > copyright violations will be closely watching the experiment to
> > make sure the protections work.
> > More: www.bookshare.org
> > Deborah Gibberd
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