[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:24:55 -0500
Remember that we can also cause book sales because we read new books and
talk about them to other readers, who may decide to go out and buy the book.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
> Here, here!!!
> Eric Flint, editor in chief at Baen Books will definitely agree with you.
> Please see his excellent editorial articles, called Prime Palavers at:
> http://www.baen.com/library
> He argues quite eloquently that his royalty revenue has increased because
> of free etext.
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> Guido D. Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> IBM Research,
> Phone: (512) 838-9735
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
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> "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
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> Hi Everyone:
> I know this won't sound politically correct, but oh well.
> If we as blind individuals happen to be getting an "advantage" over our
> sited bretheron when it comes to books, then so be it.
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> I am not a member, I am just a volunteer. in fact i'm not much in to
> reading. What attracted me to bookshare was the concept of making
> thousands
> of books available to people who want them.
> Up to this point, i have been vallidating, but now that i have my new pc,
> i
> can take my epson 1660 out of the box and start scanning the boatload of
> books my girlfriend has *smile*
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> I have seen publishers make money off bookkshare if anything. My sister
> and
> brother-in-law are both members and they have purchased a couple of
> hundred
> dollars of books, some of which they probably bought for the expressed
> purpose of scanning.
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> By the way, nothing says that some sited people don't borrow books from a
> library, use $99 off-the-shelf OCR software to scan them and they
> themselves
> now have a harddrive full of library books.
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> Finally, I think Donna Smith put it best, she said:
> "I don't think they are losing any more money from us than they do from
> their average customers. My
> friend who is sighted walks into a book store, purchases a book for
> $10.50,
> takes it home and reads it. Then she passes it along to a friend, who
> passes it along to a friend, and it changes hands any number of times
> before
> it finally ends up in a used book sale, where someone else pays $4 for it,
> takes it home and reads it, gives it to a friend, etc. I buy the same
> book
> for $10.50, bring it home, spend several hours scanning it, someone else
> spends more hours validating it, and then it is available for sharing
> around
> via BookShare to those who meet the criteria. I don't think we're having
> a
> negative impact on the market. In fact, I have purchased many more books
> since becoming a member of BookShare and learning that others share my
> interests."
> --end of quote
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> For me, its all about access. And I will continue to do what I can.
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> -- Rui
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