[blindlaw] Why print-disabled people should thankthe AuthorsGuild...

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

it sounds a biyt paternalistic and self-serving to say the least.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Why print-disabled people should thankthe 
AuthorsGuild...


> Here's some of what the Center for Accessible Publishing has done in the 
> past:
>
> http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2006/proceedings/2715.htm
>
> It sounds like this organization's livelihood is threatened by easy access 
> to electronic books, since it exists to be THE source for college students 
> to get books, through cooperation with publishers and protecting their 
> bottom lines at all costs.  Bookshare, RFB&D, and even NLS interfere with 
> the organization because publishers don't receive a dime for books 
> accessed in these ways.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 02:11:29AM -0300, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>> Good evening,
>>
>> The following URL provides the contact info for the group that has 
>> registered the AccessiblePublishing.org domain.
>>
>> http://who.is/whois/accessiblepublishing.org/
>>
>> HTH,
>> Everett
>
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