[nfb-talk] I wish bookshare would utilize pricing plans like cell phone companies

Joshua Lester jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
Sat Oct 15 17:15:34 UTC 2011


I have subscribed to NLS, because I don't have enough memory, on this
laptop for downloading books.
If I had a notetaker, that would be a diferent story.
I've given up my Bookshare membership, because of this.
They don't have textbooks, for my college classes, anyway.
Blessings, Joshua

On 10/15/11, Dana <dananolan at comcast.net> wrote:
> I went on vacation for example and I am not complaining in the least I am
> exstatic that there are so many new books up on bookshare so what I am
> sayign is that I sure do appreciate the service immensely and love all of
> the awesome books I get to read because of it.
> I understand completely there is no way  shape or form  that I can read more
> than probably 100 books a month as yes I do read about 2 or 3 books
> sometimes daily, but this is the thing.
> I have literally had to email myself lists of books that I want to come back
> to the site and eventually download once my ability to do this is given back
> to me.
> I do at this time get 300 downloads a month and again as I stated I know I
> can't read that many books, but the convenience of just being able to
> download books when I look at the new books added to the collection would
> save me a lot of time and I believe if bookshare instituted a pricing plan
> structure, for example that those who paid one yearly fee could get one
> number of downloads and those who paid a different higher amount for a
> yearly fee could be given ability to obtain more downloads.
> I do not want something for free I am willing to pay whatever would benefit
> bookshare in any way shape or form, I just wish there were an option to for
> example pay double the annual cost yearly to be given say 500 downloads
> monthly for those of us who choose to download more books. Or even say a
> structure like paying the normal 50 dollars yearly for 300 books monthly 100
> dollars for say 500 books monthly and I doubt anyone would need this but
> even say 200 dollars annually for people who wanted to download 1000 books
> monthly. This would earn bookshare more money and give those of us who
> wanted it more options.  Me personally I just like to keep them on my
> external hard drive and booksense and when one works 40 hours weekly full
> time anything to save me time is a good thing in my book (smile)
> I wonder if anyone can see what I am saying at all and to me anything that
> can give bookshare more money and give those of us who want it more
> convenience seems to me a good idea.
> Thanks for reading.
> Dana
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