[NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Hi Chris,
I hope you are doing well.
I agree with everyone's advice. I do pretty much what Sophie does, look on Bookshare and Ibooks, before I go to the bookstinore.
One thing to keep in mind if you do use the bookstore. Normally, students either have the option to buy or rent the book. Most understandably choose to rent it, because it is cheaper and they aren't going to be keeping it anyway. But in order for the DSS  to scan a book they  often need to cut it, and can't cut it unless you buy it. This is a completely understandable policy, and one which is probably followed at most schools.
HTH
Vejas

> On Jan 15, 2018, at 14:28, 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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