[stylist] BookShare and libraries

[Ashley Bramlett]

right, you need to write and read for mainstream audience to make money; the 
blind population is too small for this and beside as you say most of blind 
people get stuff for free via bookshare or nls.;

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:01 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] BookShare and libraries

I guess I'd be inclined to start out thinking as Julie and Phyllis are -
wanting to get as much mileage out of book sales as possible. Yet - knowing
that the blind community is small and the portion of it that would be
interested in any one blindness topic and/or type of book would be even
smaller. (The blind also have a large percentage of low income folks, too;
who are used to getting reading materials at no cost.)

On BookShare specific, I'm thinking the majority of their titles are books
that someone like you or me has freely scanned and uploaded; with no
permissions sought by the publisher and/or author. (The legality to do it is
covered by how BookShare is set up.)

No doubt, the blind author who writes mainstream stuff has the best chance
to make a dollar.


(General thoughts by me --- Robert Leslie Newman)



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