[nabs-l] Textbook Questions

[Rob Blachowicz]

Ok well y ou can call the publisher but they will tell u that you need a 
school administrator to sign off on it.  So they will usually ask you for 
theschools fax number.
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From: "Mark J. Cadigan" <kramc11 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Textbook Questions

> 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
>
>
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> From: "Rob Blachowicz" <rob_blach at hotmail.com>
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>>
>> 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
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>> From: "Mark J. Cadigan" <kramc11 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:46 PM
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>>>
>>> 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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