[nabs-l] Textbooks on the Amazon Kindle

[T. Joseph Carter]

Jason Ewell sent this message to the NFB Cafe, a group on Facebook:

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Subject: Textbooks on the Amazon Kindle

NFB Cafe members:

This summer, Amazon will begin selling a new version of its Kindle 
e-book reader which is designed to work well with textbooks. Several 
universities will be giving students Kindles preloaded with some of 
their books in the fall. We need to find any blind students attending 
these schools. They are Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, 
Princeton University, Pace University in New York City, Reed College 
in Portland, Oregon, Arizona State University, and the Darden School 
of Business at the University of Virginia. If you attend one of these 
schools or if you know a blind or visually impaired student who does, 
please email me at JEwell at nfb.org. You can read about the new Kindle 
at http:online.wsj.com/article/SB124146996831184563.html

Thanks,
Jason Ewell
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The link in the above message has been changed slightly so that it 
goes directly to the article, rather than through Facebook, to be 
sure that it works for people without accounts on the networking 
service.

I will be contacting Lily Copenagle at Reed College to find out if 
there are any blind students currently attending Reed, and I will 
also be speaking with her about students with other print 
disabilities as well.

Joseph

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T. Joseph Carter, President
Oregon Association of Blind Students
carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
503-562-9299