[bksvol-discuss] [Bookshare.org Newsletter] 30,500 Books and Counting

From: "Gustavo Galindo" <Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:43:38 -0800

<http://www.bookshare.org/>

Winter, 2006

Now over 30,500 Books on our site!

Welcome to the Bookshare.org Newsletter

Winter, 2006
In this issue:

Bookshare.org is an Authorized Media Producer

Bookshare.org now has over 30,500 books

Our Top 10 Downloads for 2006

Our Top 10 Public Domain Downloads for 2006

Our Most-Read Periodicals for the Year

More Chart Toppers

Give the Gift of Bookshare.org

Bookshare.org On the Road in 2006

Earn a Free or Discounted Subscription

About Bookshare.org

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Bookshare.org Newsletter; Winter, 2006. Hello. I'm gustavo galindo, the Manager
of the Bookshare.org Website, and the editor of this newsletter. Bookshare.org
is the on-line digital library of accessible books with over 30,500 books and
periodicals. If you met us for the first time at one of the conferences we
attended this fall, this is your first quarterly newsletter. It's my pleasure
to bring you up to date on the latest happenings at Bookshare.org, share a bit
of what we're planning for 2007, and point you to additional resources
available to the print-disabled community. Aside from that, happy holiday
wishes from the entire Bookshare.org team!

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Bookshare.org is a NIMAS Authorized Media Producer. We are proud to announce
that Bookshare.org is an Authorized Media Producer registered at the NIMAC
Repository (http://nimac.us/ <http://nimac.us/> ). If your students need DAISY
etext, this means that Bookshare.org can act as an agent for your State
Education Agency (SEA) or Local Education Agency (LEA), and can access content
in the NIMAC repository, retrieve a copy of publisher-submitted files, and
deliver it to you for use by your qualified K-12 student. Please click here to
read more about NIMAS in a new browser window, http://nimas.cast.org/
<http://nimas.cast.org/> . If you have questions about how you can work with
Bookshare.org, please contact Janice Carter at janice.c@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:janice.c@xxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Bookshare.org%20and%20NIMAS> .

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Bookshare.org has over 35,500 Books! Bookshare.org now has over 30,500 books
available for our subscribers to download in DAISY or BRF; this reflects a
more-than 5,500 book increase in available books since the start of 2006. We've
been adding about 100 new titles every week. When we reached the 30,000 mark in
early November, we showcased how a visually-impaired 16-year old Boy Scout from
Chantilly, Virginia helped us get to this number. Click here to read our press
release on our 30,000 books in a new browser window
<http://www.benetech.org/about/press_releases/PR_2006-11-08_BSO_30000.html> .
Our online accessible etext library reflects the diverse interests and needs of
our print-disabled community. Aside from our usual offerings of the latest
best-sellers in fiction and non-fiction, computers & technology, sci-fi,
romance, children's titles, K-12 and college-level textbooks, we're happy to
include offerings such as cookbooks, gardening books, and travel guides. Click
here to go to list of the 100 newest books added to our collection
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksNew.html> . Click here for a list of the
more than 225 New York Times Best Seller titles
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/NYA.html> we've added, plus get a peek at the
latest best selling books we're working on. Browse our collection by your
favorite category <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByCategory.html> or
author <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByAuthor.html> . You can do a simple
search or an advanced search for authors and titles on Bookshare.org. Click
here to go to the Bookshare.org Simple Search page
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksBySimpleSearch.html> or the Bookshare.org
Advanced Search page <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByAdvancedSearch.html> .

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What did our Subscribers Read in 2006? With over 30,500 titles for our
subscribers to choose from by year's end, the staff here at Bookshare.org were
very curious to see what had been our most popular downloads by our
subscribers. Only persons who reside in the United States, who have registered
on our site, provided us with a qualifying proof of a print disability and who
have an active subscription may download books from us that are under
copyright. Here's the list of the ten most downloaded books by our subscribers
in 2006!

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=32361>
2. The Da Vinci Code
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=35039>
3. Cell
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=35580>
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=12394>
5. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=34577>
6. Holy Bible, New International Version
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=36566>
7. Two Little Girls in Blue
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=37218>
8. The Fifth Horseman
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=2669>
9. Angels & Demons
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=23001>
10. Rise and Shine
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=40413>

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Popular Public Domain Titles in 2006. Unlike our copyright-protected books
which are restricted to current subscribers, our Public Domain titles are
freely available to anybody anywhere in the world-even you--even if you are not
a subscriber or do not have a print disability. Aside from the file formats
that we offer our copyrighted books in, DAISY and BRF, our Public Domain titles
are also available in HTML and Text (ASCII). If you've never downloaded a book
from Bookshare.org before, you could click on the following links and try us
out yourself. Here are our most popular Public Domain downloads for 2006.

1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=2081>
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=4213>
3. Wuthering Heights
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=5059>
4. On the Art of War
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=6367>
5. Julius Caesar
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=4142>
6. Little Women
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=4749>
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=1409>
8. Black Beauty
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=596>
9. The 9/11 Commission Report
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=26620>
10. A Christmas Carol
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=655>

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Newspapers and Magazines from NFB-Newsline®! More than 150 national, regional
and local newspapers and magazines
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/MembersPeriodicals.html> are available for
download in BRF and DAISY by Bookshare.org subscribers and school or group
accounts in partnership with the National Federation of the Blind Newsline®
System. Access to Newsline periodicals is limited to subscribers who reside in
states that contribute to funding of the Newsline service. Visit the
Bookshare.org website for a comprehensive list of NFB-Newsline® titles we
currently offer. by clicking here: NFB-Newsline® pages
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/MembersPeriodicals.html> , or check if your state
funds this service by clicking here to visit our Newspapers and Periodicals
Information Page <http://www.bookshare.org/web/AboutNewsline.html> .

Our Ten Most Popular Newspapers for 2006 are:

1. New York Times
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=new_york_times&returnUrl=submittitleid=new_york_times>

2. Wall Street Journal
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=wall_street_journal&returnUrl=submittitleid=wall_street_journal>

3. USA Today
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=usa_today&returnUrl=submittitleid=usa_today>

4. Washington Post
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=washington_post&returnUrl=submittitleid=washington_post>

5. Washington Times
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=washington_times&returnUrl=submittitleid=washington_times>

6. Chicago Tribune
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=chicago_tribune&returnUrl=submittitleid=chicago_tribune>

7. San Francisco Chronicle
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=san_francisco_chronicle&returnUrl=submittitleid=san_francisco_chronicle>

8. Los Angeles Times
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=los_angeles_times&returnUrl=submittitleid=los_angeles_times>

9. Austin American Statesman
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=austin_american_statesman&returnUrl=submittitleid=austin_american_statesman>

10. Oakland Tribune
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=oakland_tribune&returnUrl=submittitleid=oakland_tribune>

Our most-downloaded magazine for 2006 was The New Yorker
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=new_yorker&returnUrl=submittitleid=new_yorker>
. In 2006, there was a tie for our most-downloaded Spanish-language newspaper
between La Opinión
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=la_opinion&returnUrl=submittitleid=la_opinion>
from Los Angeles and El Nuevo Herald
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SinglePeriodical.html?submittitleid=el_nuevo_herald&returnUrl=submittitleid=el_nuevo_herald>
from Miami.

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More Chart-Toppers for the Year. Aside from copyrighted books (restricted to
persons who reside in the U. S.) and public domain titles (available to anyone
anywhere), we also offer books from O'Reilly Media, Inc. to persons around with
world with verified print-disabilities who subscribe with us. Since 2002,
O'Reilly Media, Inc., publishers of technical reference books and programming
manuals, have entrusted Bookshare.org to service the needs of their
print-disabled readers world-wide by sharing their books with us
electronically. These are the 5 most downloaded titles from O'Reilly Media for
2006

1. Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=33039>
2. Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=35407>
3. Excel for Starters: The Missing Manual
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=35396>
4. Digital Audio Essentials
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=35395>
5. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=39227>

Other publishers as well as individual authors have also generously shared
their works directly with us, and have given us permission to serve the needs
of print-disabled readers world-wide. Following is a list of the 5 most
downloaded titles that Bookshare.org distributes world-wide with author or
publisher permission:

1. Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=36524>
2. Blind Man Running: A Product of the Ozark Mountains
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=40231>
3. Family Guardian
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=40121>
4. The Butterfly's Dance
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=40728>
5. Healing Digestive Illness: Root Causes and Solutions
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=41240>

We here at Bookshare.org thank O'Reilly Media, and the other authors and
publishers who have worked with us over the past year to share their works
directly with the print-disabled communities we serve.

Bookshare.org offers books in Spanish, and we presently have over 1,100 titles
available for our subscribers to download. Here's the top 5 downloaded
Spanish-language books for 2006:

1. Hija de la Fortuna
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=38195>
2. Las perlas rojas
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=37379>
3. Divide y conquistarás
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=38237>
4. El ave extraordinaria y otros textos
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=37376>
5. Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=38517>

Our Spanish-language collection comes from a variety of sources: a few were
scanned and converted to etext in the U.S. and are subsequently available only
to subscribers in the United States; some Spanish-language books are in the
Public Domain and are freely available to anyone anywhere in the world; the
largest source of our Spanish-language books is Tiflolibros
(www.tiflolibros.com.ar <http://www.tiflolibros.com.ar/> ) from Argentina-
-they have shared a portion of their accessible collection of scanned books
with us and allow us to serve print-disabled individuals world-wide as well.

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Give the Gift of Bookshare.org and Give the Gift of Reading! Give a
subscription to Bookshare.org's more than 30,500 accessible books and over 150
newspapers and periodicals. U.S. residents who have a print disability
including visual impairment, learning disability or mobility impairment can
subscribe. Bookshare.org also offers special packages for groups and
institutions such as schools that serve individuals with print disabilities.
Click here to learn how to give the gift of reading
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/EditablePage.html?page_id=Holidays_2006> .

You can also help Bookshare.org add new books to our collection by making a tax
deductible donation to Bookshare.org online
<https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=2863> using your credit card
or by check via the mail <http://www.bookshare.org/web/DonateNowByCheck.html> .

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Bookshare.org at a Convention Near You in 2007. Bookshare.org staff will be
busy attending quite a few conventions at the start of 2007. If you are
planning on attending any of the following conventions, please be sure to stop
by our booth in the exhibit hall, or look for presentations that we may be
involved with. We'd love to meet you, and answer your questions personally.

* ATIA in Orlando in January
* TRLD in San Francisco in February
* LDA in Pittsburgh in February
* CTVEH in Santa Clara, California in March
* CSUN in Los Angeles in March
* CEC in Louisville in April

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Renewals to Bookshare.org Are $50 Per Year or Less (Even Free): When you
purchase a new annual subscription to Bookshare.org for $75, you pay for
unlimited "all-you-can-read" access to our collection of over 30,500 books plus
periodicals. Renewals cost only $50! However, we know that for some members of
the Bookshare.org community, $50 is actually a lot. We strongly believe that
our members can help themselves at the same time they help others. Every time
one of our members scans and submits a new book, or becomes an on-line
volunteer and validates a book that somebody else has submitted, that member
earns credit that get applied against the cost of an inaugural subscription or
a renewal.

Since the start of 2006, 10 of our members have earned entirely free new
subscriptions through their Bookshare.org community volunteering efforts. In
that same time, over 60 members have earned their renewals at no cost to them.
Over 150 members have defrayed part of their subscription fees. At the same
time, these members have helped us add over 5,500 new titles to Bookshare.org
since the start of the year.

Learn how you can earn credits by submitting new books that you scan
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/MembersSubmitForm.html> , or volunteering to
validate books that others have submitted
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/AboutVolunteering.html> .

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About Bookshare.org, Books without Barriers--Bookshare.org is an online
community that enables people in the United States with visual or other print
disabilities to legally share scanned books.

Bookshare.org is a project of the Benetech Initiative, a nonprofit
organization. The Benetech team originally developed the Arkenstone reading
systems, and is now using the power of technology to introduce new projects
such as Bookshare.org.

* www.benetech.org <http://www.benetech.org/> (opens a new browser
window)
The Benetech Initiative
480 California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA

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