[NABS-L] Proof of Purchase

[Jason Polansky]

Yes, I think everything that's been said here is correct. I typically check Bookshare, iBooks, and also VitalSource.com which I don't think has been mentioned yet. Often times, with VitalSource, you can rent a book for six months which is much cheaper than paying full price. After the six months are over, it just automatically deletes the book from your library. The only books that I have bought in hard copy are the ones that Kim Higham has Brailled or thathe ones that are specific to Messiah College only. Some classes at Messiah have course packets that you have to buy from the bookstore. I will purchase the book and then take it to disability services so they can either scan or send me an electronic copy that they will either e-mail to me or share through Google drive. I think there have been one or two books that were not available on line and that I had to order ahard copy through Amazon of which disability services scanned. Hope this helps and that college is going well for you. 

> 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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