[stylist] BookShare and libraries

[Ashley Bramlett]

Lori,
Yes, my understanding is bookshare only takes already published books. Their 
purpose is to take scanned books and distribute them in accessible format, 
or take publisher's books and convert them to accessible formats. So I think 
a novice author would have to publish a book first.

-----Original Message----- 
From: loristay at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:39 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] BookShare and libraries

Some years ago, I recorded my book, Hip Deep, and sold it through the NFB 
Writers Division for $10 (three cassettes).  I have not put it into printed 
form (except for my manuscript) and in fact copyrighted the cassette version 
only.  Consider your market, and put the book into that format.  Then market 
it to your potential customers.  If the book winds up being very successful, 
consider putting it into print and selling it to libraries.  (They do buy 
the books!)


I won't comment on whether you should make it available to Bookshare, but 
it's my impression they only scan published print books.  Am I wrong?

Lori





-----Original Message-----
From: Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 6:40 pm
Subject: [stylist] BookShare and libraries


Hello all!

I'm just about finished writing my book.  It's been two and a half years
and finally the end is in sight.  I'll have to have a party or something!LOL

Anyway I was planning on self publishing it through Kindle, SmashWords,
i Books and other similar ebook vendors.  I was corresponding with a
blind friend who is interested in reading the book.  she asked if it
would be available through BookShare, because Kindle isn't accessible.
Firstly, my understanding is that Kindle books are accessible through
the Kindle for PC software or the ap for i devices as long as the author
has made the book text to speech  enabled.  Is this correct?

Secondly do you think services like BookShare are a disadvantage to
authors?  I'm very torn on this.  On the one hand I want blind people to
have access to my books, but on the other hand I'd like to make some
money from the sale of my book.    The topic of the book is the process
of owner training my current guide dog.  I'm anticipating that a large
portion of my readers will be blind.  If most of my readers get their
copy through BookShare it will have a huge impact on my sales.  The
price of the book will be less than $10, so should be affordable to most.

I'd love to hear thoughts on this topic.  I'm still deciding how to
proceed and I'd love your input.
Julie


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