[Blindmath] Transcribing STEM Textbooks [was: Used Braille College Text Books]

[Susan Jolly]

$72,000 for transcribing a physics book to braille is insane. However it is 
nowhere near as much as it could cost the university if you choose to sue 
them for breaking U.S. law.

Amazon lists a book called University Physics 12th Edition that is available 
as a Kindle Edition for $164.98. This book is published by Addison Wesley 
and has 1632 pages. (I don't know if it is the book you need or not.)  If 
you paid $72,000 for it that would be $44 per print page as opposed to about 
10 cents a page for the Kindle book.

Of course, the math and diagrams in the Kindle edition are done as images 
but the text is already in electronic form which means the text could be 
converted to braille (or speech) automatically.

Does the university your son is planning on attending have a computer 
science department?  Contact them; there's bound to be someone there who can 
help.

Susan JOlly