[NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

[Donald Winiecki]

As I understand it, because of the Chaffee amendment -- with some
restrictions -- any `authorized entity` (such as Learning Ally,
Bookshare, or others with a specific institutional goal to make
materials accessible, including providers and your school) can make
the materials accessible and then make them available to you without
charge. However, someone still has to buy the book.

Providers like Learning Ally and Bookshare take donations to purchase
those materials and make them accessible, or have volunteers who take
materials purchased in some other way and make them accessible for
distribution through the `authorized entity`. However, your school's
DSS likely doesn't have such financial backing for this process.

That accounts for the expectation to purchase some materials yourself,
while not having to purchase them from a source like Learning Ally or
Bookshare or other such organizations.  (Of course, one still has to
show he or she is a student in order to qualify for the free access to
materials through some of these sources.)

Best,

_don


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Aleeha Dudley via NABS-L
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> You do have to purchase the texts, but you should not have to buy them from the campus bookstore. You should be able to get them from Amazon or another retailer.
> Aleeha
>
>> On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Chris Nusbaum via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All:
>>
>> I hope this email finds each of you enjoying a smooth start to your spring
>> semester! It seems that, on this first day of classes for me, I find myself
>> stumped on an accessibility question which I'm hoping you can help with. I
>> received an email this morning from my DSS coordinator asking me to provide
>> her with a "proof of purchase" for each of my textbooks. She says that
>> students who receive alternative accessible copies of books are still
>> required to buy the books from the campus bookstore in order to avoid
>> copyright infringement on the part of the DSS office. As far as I
>> understand, if DSS obtains a book from an accessible online resource such as
>> AccessText, Bookshare, or Learning Ally, the Chaffee Amendment would protect
>> them from copyright problems. Furthermore, if they get the accessible book
>> directly from the book's publisher, the publisher is granting them access to
>> the text, which should also protect the college from copyright problems. But
>> my DSS coordinator is telling me I still need to buy my books from the
>> Campus Store anyway.
>>
>> So, can anyone explain how this works? Do I really need to buy the print
>> books if I already got them from DSS in an accessible format? If I do need
>> to buy them, what do I do with the print books once I get them? It seems
>> like it would be a waste to buy a perfectly good book only for it to sit on
>> my desk as I read the accessible copy which DSS got somewhere else. I want
>> to do all that I need to in order to get access to my textbooks, but I also
>> don't want to spend money unnecessarily. Thank you in advance for helping me
>> make sense of this.
>>
>> Chris Nusbaum
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
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