[Blindtlk] I think bookshare should consider pricing plans like cell phone providers have in place

[Humberto Avila]

I agree with this statement. If we are students, and we get free accounts,
then they shouldn't have to step it up and give us the charging  bolt. But
if you are not a student, this would be a great idea as this would help the
company and would actually make the other blind non-students pay and be more
realistic about their money usage just as a sighted person. 

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Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] I think bookshare should consider pricing plans like
cell phone providers have in place

At the NFB national convention, a representative from Bookshare told
me and others that if you call them when you reach your limit, they
will make your account open for another 100 books, if you have a
student account. This is very helpful to me, since I do download a lot
of books that I may or may not read. For example, for a research paper
for English, I downloaded 20 books that seemed to be on the right
track for the paper. I have since narrowed that selection to 5 books
for variou sreasons (such as a book not having page numbers clearly
marked or the content is not actually on the topic I was seeking). So
I downloaded 15 books that I am not going to read, but that I wanted
to skim. I haven't hit the 1000 book limit yet, but if I did, it's
good that I can call them to allow for more books.

My two cents,
Jewel

On 10/15/11, Dana <dananolan at comcast.net> wrote:
> Wondering your opinions
> I went on vacation for example and I am not complaining in the least I am
> exstatic that there are so many new books up on bookshare so what I am
> sayign is that I sure do appreciate the service immensely and love all of
> the awesome books I get to read because of it.
> I understand completely there is no way  shape or form  that I can read
more
> than probably 100 books a month as yes I do read about 2 or 3 books
> sometimes daily, but this is the thing.
> I have literally had to email myself lists of books that I want to come
back
> to the site and eventually download once my ability to do this is given
back
> to me.
> I do at this time get 300 downloads a month and again as I stated I know I
> can't read that many books, but the convenience of just being able to
> download books when I look at the new books added to the collection would
> save me a lot of time and I believe if bookshare instituted a pricing plan
> structure, for example that those who paid one yearly fee could get one
> number of downloads and those who paid a different higher amount for a
> yearly fee could be given ability to obtain more downloads.
> I do not want something for free I am willing to pay whatever would
benefit
> bookshare in any way shape or form, I just wish there were an option to
for
> example pay double the annual cost yearly to be given say 500 downloads
> monthly for those of us who choose to download more books. Or even say a
> structure like paying the normal 50 dollars yearly for 300 books monthly
100
> dollars for say 500 books monthly and I doubt anyone would need this but
> even say 200 dollars annually for people who wanted to download 1000 books
> monthly. This would earn bookshare more money and give those of us who
> wanted it more options.  Me personally I just like to keep them on my
> external hard drive and booksense and when one works 40 hours weekly full
> time anything to save me time is a good thing in my book (smile)
> I wonder if anyone can see what I am saying at all and to me anything that
> can give bookshare more money and give those of us who want it more
> convenience seems to me a good idea.
> Thanks for reading.
> Dana
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