[Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books

[Jordyn Castor]

Hi all,
I just want to throw this out there.
I took Calc I last semester and my Resource Center for Person's With 
Disibilities produced the book for me. I was told it cost around $6000. 
The book was also high quality, with high quality graphics.
They are also producing my Calc II and physics books for next year.
It's crazy a company would charge 50-70,000 for a textbook.
Jordyn
On 6/19/2012 12:15 PM, Susan Mooney wrote:
> The university needs to talk to other people.  Yes, there are budget crappy
> transcribers out there.  The overwhelming majority of us are professionals,
> however.  Braille Plus (www.brailleplus.net) is a fabulous outfit which
> prides itself not only on accuracy and fast turn arounds but they are a joy
> to work with and for.  Again, most instructors are not going to use the
> entire text so it may be worth getting only the portion of the books
> needed.  I can't imagine trying to do physics and chem and math without
> braille.  I have transcribed many level college texts w/o doing the entire
> book. It doesn't matter if your son is the first or the 121st blind
> student.  The university needs to get its butt in gear.
>
> SM
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tammy Berg<tdberg72 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> Thank you everyone for your feedback and responses. After talking with the
>> disability services department more, I was provided with the following
>> information regarding where they received their pricing for the books being
>> transcribed to Braille. My son will be the first blind student to attend
>> their univesity so it's going to be a learning experience for all of us.
>> They are offering audio books, readers, and scribes; however, we were
>> really hoping to get the books in Braille so he can be more independent and
>> have the material at his fingertips. We will continue to push for the
>> Braille books.
>>
>> "The estimates were done by Arizona State University’s Disability
>> Services Office that does the work in-house for their students.   Others
>> confirm that they deliver the
>> highest quality produced at a reasonable cost.
>> I have a list of other agencies that do Braille texts, but have
>> been warned that not all are equal in quality or production time.  Most
>> conversion agencies require one year in advance to convert texts to
>> Braille.
>>   College level science and math pose another challenge:  it is
>> important that the agency employs converters that know the subject matter
>> well enough to accurately convert it.
>> The ASU estimates (sans two) for Fall 2012
>> semester were as follows:
>> --Basics of Engineering Economy  = $18,000
>> (could be a “hybrid” for $8000)
>> --Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter = $55,000  (not
>> cheaper as a hybrid due to more labor involved in making the text/images to
>> audio with screen-reader)
>> --University Physics = $72,000 (could be a “hybrid” for $38,000
>> if student is accustomed to listening to math)
>> --Calculus = $71,000 (could be a “hybrid” for $40,000 if student
>> is accustomed to listening to math)"
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>   From: Tammy Berg<tdberg72 at yahoo.com>
>> To: "blindmath at nfbnet.org"<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:50 PM
>> Subject: [Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books
>>
>> 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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