[Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books

Mon Jun 18 17:50:24 UTC 2012

Hi Ryan,
I am glad to hear you noticed about the textbook. We've worked with Cengage in the past, purchasing etext for a finance class. Our student used large print and the ebook worked well for him.
The Chemistry book was transcribed according to the Braille Code for Chemical Notation, 1997 and The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation, 1972 Rev., 2007 Update. The tactiles were wonderful and well made. Our high school student did well in this class. 
I don't know what the difference is from k-12 to college, we are experiencing some difficulties in getting AP textbooks at the moment.
Thanks for listening,
Michelle

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Hemphill
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:26 AM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books

Oh yeah, I definitely noticed after checking in on the details.  It's my
job to fix this problem and I am *definitely* paying attention to this
issue.

I would like to ask a question about the Chemistry --- is that going to
handle the Chemical Reaction math with braille as well?  What formatting
are they using there, do you know?

Ryan

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Lamborn_Michelle <
Lamborn_Michelle at asdk12.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> We had a high school student taking a Chemistry class here and her
> textbook book wasn't available anywhere. APH worked with us to get her book
> to us and only charged us $1,000! We were surprised that a science book
> with so much math and tactiles could cost us so little. We asked if there
> was a mistake they made on the price and they told us that it cost their
> agency $50,000 to make the book. We were very fortunate on the price and
> the book was so well made! Again this title was unavailable anywhere else.
> I looked at APH for the Calculus title below and there are 3 agencies that
> can provide that book in braille. It might be worthwhile for Tammy to get
> in touch with them to get a price.
> Ryan, you might be interested to know that the Calculus book is listed at
> Cengage Learning? I know that Tammy said the publisher is Brooks Cole. I'm
> in no way being critical, I think it's great that you and Cengage are on
> this list listening to how difficult getting textbooks can be!
> For the Chemistry book, I could only find it in an ebook and in audio from
> Learning Ally. Since it's not available in braille, Tammy could also
> inquire at APH. She would hopefully be as lucky as we were.
> Michelle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Ryan Hemphill
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:11 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books
>
> I just looked up some examples here.  It's pricey, no doubt, but the range
> is not 50k, the worst I see is around 5k.  Still crazy, but not 50k crazy.
>
> See below...
>
>
> http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/find.html?mv_session_id=c2RGk5gT&mv_action=search&mv_form_profile=search_type&w=Calculus&c=&mv_click=Go
>
> I would also like to mention that you may have grounds for a lawsuit here.
>  I don't like being a troublemaker (most of the time) but i think this
> shows some real neglect of the laws around accessible education on the part
> of the school your son is attending.  Penn State just got nailed big time
> about their accessibility issues, so it isn't going out on a limb to say
> that this school is subject to the same ruling.
>
> Incidentally, I would like to thank you for bringing this up.  The work
> that I am doing is designed to convert math to Braille online and make the
> price of an electronic textbook no different for the blind than it would be
> for a sighted user.  Seeing the prices for texts, something I hadn't even
> investigated, shows me just how important it is to make this happen.
>
> Thanks for inadvertently providing me with additional incentive to complete
> my work.
>
>
> Ryan.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, June 16, 2012, Ryan Hemphill <ryanhemphill.email at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I would agree. It sounds Ike someone is very very misinformed.  If you
> think about it logically, there is no way that anyone would ever make any
> textbook in Braille at that price, ever.  Of course that isn't the case, my
> company outsources this regularly.
> >
> >
> >
> > If it sounds wrong, it probably is.  Go directly to the source, the book
> publisher, and find out from them.  Then, correct whoever is claiming this
> misinformation.
> >
> > Just out of curiousity, which school is this that we're talking about
> here?
> >
> > Ran
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, Susan Mooney <susanannemooney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Where in the world is the university procuring the textbooks?  Does that
> >> not seem a bit on the high side for you?  Most of the time the
> >> instructors/profs will not use the entire text.  Perhaps the instructor
> can
> >> outline which portions of the text s/he will be using and get only those
> >> portions transcribed?  As a transcriber, I've done this many times.
>  That
> >> figure is absolutely crazy.
> >>
> >> SM
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Tammy Berg <tdberg72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> My son will be attending a private university in the fall and we have
> just
> >>> been notified that they will not be able to provide his texts books in
> >>> Braille due to the cost of $50,000-$60,000 per text that they were
> quoted
> >>> for having them converted to Braille. Are there any resources for used
> >>> Braille math and science college text books.
> >>> The texts that he will be using in the fall are:
> >>> Calculus, 6th Edition
> >>> James Stewart
> >>> ISBN-13978-0495011668
> >>> Publiser: Brooks Cole
> >>> Chemistry
> >>> The Molecular View of Nature, 6th Edition
> >>> Jespersen, Brady, Hyslop
> >>> Publisher:  Wiley University Physics
> >>> by Young & Freedman 13th edition 2012
> >>> Publishers: Addison & Wesley
> >>> Thank You - Tammy
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