From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 3 Aug 1996 01:59:28 -0000 MBOX-Line: From zocki@goldfish.cube.net Sat Aug 3 03:57:31 1996 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 504); 3 Aug 1996 01:57:06 -0000 Received: (qmail-queue invoked from smtpd); 3 Aug 1996 01:57:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Aug 1996 01:57:04 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 03:57:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hans Zoebelein To: blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net Subject: In Touch Handbook on the Net (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Dear Blinuxers, This might be interesting for you, so I forward this message to he list. Hans ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 96 22:02 MET DST From: Hans Zoebelein To: zocki@goldfish.cube.net Subject: (fwd) In Touch Handbook on the Net Newsgroups: alt.comp.blind-users From: Mike McMillan Newsgroups: alt.comp.blind-users Subject: In Touch Handbook on the Net Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:57:38 +0100 (BST) Organization: University of Reading, U.K. Lines: 48 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: suts-p9.reading.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 0.99j] In Touch Handbook Preserved On The Internet The In Touch Handbook 'bible' of visual impairment for 23 years, is being made freely available in cyberspace as a closing gesture after 12 editions using five different publishing media. Handbook publishers IN TOUCH PUBLISHING are placing the Handbook permanently on the Internet, where it will be availble for browsing, access and downloading by users of any medium, including braille, speech and large print. Speaking at the 'Sight Village 1996' exhibition, handbook Publisher Mike Joseph called the move 'an important step marking the end of conventional publishing. 'We aim to extract the maximum continuing benefit for visually imapired people, despite the failure of all attempts so far to secure future funding for the Handbook.' The move into cyberspace also keeps alive the possibility that the means and the finance to restore active publishing will be found at some time in future, but it was stressed that the time is not now. The rest of the release details the history of the quest to find funding for a further edition which would be of no interest to others outside the UK so I will not labour the point - if UK folk want to know more, I'll e-mail the whole release to them by all means. It is still available for the time being in 3 mediums: print, disk and braille, but permanently on the Internet. A small stock of the Handbook in print can be obtained from In Touch Publishing (01 222 222403) or RNIB (0345 023153 for details I think) who are distributing particularly to libraries. There is also a small stock of the computer disk Handbook in 'SeeView' search format with accompanying tape for visually impaired computer users. The Handbook in braille is sold out. Braille readers can emboss extracts from the Internet, or can use In Touch Publishing's braille extract sevice at standard braille printing rates. The Internet Handbook is available at http://www.netlink.co.us/users/pia Posted by Chris McMillan Chris McMillan Snail Mail: 42 Eastcourt Avenue, Earley, Reading, Berkshire RG6 1HH. Tel: 0118 9265450. Fax: 0118 9668167.