[nabs-l] Textbook Questions

[Mark J. Cadigan]

Thanks for your answer, but I forgot to mention. I am in high school, and 
high schools don't have a college stile disability office. The school did 
what they know, AKA contacting RFBD and book share, but they are like, we 
don't know what to do. So, to be able to have the books by the time school 
starts, I have to find a solution on how to make the text books digital.

Thanks
Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Blachowicz" <rob_blach at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Textbook Questions


>
> There are tons of answers to this question but here are the onesI have.
> Try talking to your disabilities office they can contact the publisher as 
> to a digital edition.  Keep in mind you do have to either buy the 
> non-accessible digital edition first or purchase the standard print 
> textbook for them to provide this.  The federation is trying to go after 
> publishers to try and directly download our own books but only a few 
> publishers have agreed as you can already see.
> Rob Blachowicz
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mark J. Cadigan" <kramc11 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:46 PM
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> Subject: [nabs-l] Textbook Questions
>
>>
>> I am unable to find any of my text books this year either on RFBD or book 
>> share. I am wondering if anyone has tips on how to get digital files of 
>> the book from publishers. If I can't get the digital copy of the book, I 
>> am going to have to scan it and OCR it. Does anyone know of a 
>> professional company that will do this? Has anyone found a scanner with a 
>> paper feed device that works well with OCR software?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>>
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