[NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

[sondra york]

Tell them u have an accessible copy, if DHS got you the accessible copy, then you don’t have to buy it a second time. It’s not copyright they’re after, it’s money.

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> On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Emma Mitchell via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes you are required to buy all books in print so that they can convert them 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 15, 2018, at 5:28 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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