[Cabs] Fw: [wabs] Fw: [Nabs-presidents] Accessable textbooks

[Nehemiah Hall]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Meghan Whalen" <mewhalen at wisc.edu>
To: "Wisconsin Association of Blind Students List" <wabs at nfbwis.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 13:51
Subject: [wabs] Fw: [Nabs-presidents] Accessable textbooks


> >From MABS president in Montanna.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Reed" <jim275_2 at yahoo.com>
> To: "NABS presidents" <nabs-presidents at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:42 PM
> Subject: [Nabs-presidents] Accessable textbooks
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> I just found out the following, and thought it wwas importiant to share. 
> If you feel it is worthwhile, please forward this to your student 
> divisions.
>
> I (my school) just got through ordering accessable versions of my
> textbooks through the publishers. Apparantly, the publisher emails a
> accessable version of the book to the university, but the university is
> not able to release the accessable version of the book until I have
> proven that I have purchased the book. What my DSS office told me was
> that I needed to go to the book store, buy the book, and bring DSS a
> recipt proving the book was purchased. From my understanding, this is
> the standard method used by most DSS offices and publishers.
>
> What I found out today, and what I wanted to share with other students is 
> that that is not the only way to get
> accessable books via the publisher and DSS office. I got on-line and I 
> found that the publisher of my Constitutional Law book
> also has an electronic version of the same book, avaliable on-line. The
> on-line, electronic version is designed to be read by sighted persons
> via their computer. The electronic version of the book cost around $50,
> the paper version of the book, avaliable through the bookstore, is
> close to $150. I called the publisher, and they told me that I could
> provide DSS a recipt that proves the purchase of EITHER format of the
> book, not just the paper copy avalaible from the bookstore. The same
> book for the same price.
>
> Please note that this may not be the
> case with every publisher, but it should be. I encourage you all to
> check with your publishers. As the technology improves, and the
> electronic text fad increases, so to does the oppertunity for disabled
> students to save money on books. But, at the same time, the oppertunity
> and potential for discrimination also increases.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jim
>
> "From compromise and things half done,
> Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
> And when at last the fight is won,
> ... Keep me still unsatisfied." --Louis Untermeyer
>
>
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