[NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

[sarah at sarahblakelarose.com]

Yes, alternative sources are good to check. If you can find your texts from Amazon, they are often cheaper. Sometimes you can also find a Kindle version with text to speech enabled, avoiding the need for scanning altogether.


Rev. Sarah Blake LaRose
http://www.sarahblakelarose.com
Accessible instruction in Biblical languages

-----Original Message-----
From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jamie P. via NABS-L
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 5:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jamie P. <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

You could always buy an ebook copy online through Amazon. They're usually much cheaper. I sometimes do that and just email my receipt to DSS. I don't know for sure about the laws surrounding this policy, but my university has it, too, so I just buy inexpensive electronic copies online. They can't require you to buy the book from the university bookstore, even if they can require you to buy it at all.  

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