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From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Bookshare & O'reilly books make an aggreement
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:52:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009901c2e4b9$28607d10$6501a8c0@handsontech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307145030.GP2860@rednote.net>

what about mars?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Bookshare & O'reilly books make an aggreement


One more important point. Not everything on BookShare is restricted to
the U.S. In particular, the O'Reilly titles are available planet wide.

Of course, if you log in from Saturn, you might have a problem.

Darrell Shandrow writes:
> From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@azboss.net>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Bookshare is proprietary enough to assure the copyrights of publishers.
> There are now tools for Linux to unpack the books.  No, those tools are
not
> open source, but the binaries are available free of charge.  There is a
cost
> for the service because there are costs incurred by Benetech to run the
> service.  :-)
>
> Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
> Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
> A+, CCNA, Network+!
> Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
> My deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the astronauts lost
in
> the 2/1/03 space shuttle explosion!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
> To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Bookshare & O'reilly books make an aggreement
>
>
> > This sounds exciting in a way because I dumpped the safari service I
> > used to have last year when they went with that goddamn java crap and
> > I told them why I was dropping out.
> >
> > The problem here though, Isn't bookshare proprietary? and aren't they
> > windows-only? if yes to the above questions, then it's just another
> > thing that forces a blind person to buy in to over $800 worth of
> > software and maybe even buy winblows just so he/she could use this
> service.
> > --
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> >    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >
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--

Janina Sajka, Director
Technology Research and Development
Governmental Relations Group
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175

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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Ann Parsons
 ` Steve Holmes
   ` Igor Gueths
   ` Ann Parsons
     ` Steve Holmes
   ` Darrell Shandrow
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` David Poehlman [this message]
       ` Thomas Stivers
         ` Ann Parsons
           ` Shaun Oliver
             ` David Poehlman

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