[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
I think you'd be great at planting stories in
newpapers -- or writing letters in response to
articles like that one. You have a certain style about
you and sense of humor. We appoint you Press Agent
Extraordiaire.
Cindy
--- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm willing to do it gratis. I like the tax
> deduction idea.
>
> Prat
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> Pratik Patel
> Interim Director
> Office of Special Services
> Queens College
> Director
> CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:20 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry
> Potter
>
> Maybe we could find one who would do it gratis and
> deduct his/her usual fee from his/her taxes as a
> charitable contribution. I'll keep my eyes and ears
> open.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > If that were true, press agents would be out of a
> > job. Bookshare says it
> > does not hav sufficient grant money and certainly
> > not enough to support
> > itself out of user fees. A press agent might be
> > able to get us noticed by
> > publishers, authors, and foundations. Sounded
> like
> > a good idea to me Cindy.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> > At 08:02 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > >You are our press agents..... There is nothing
> > better than word-of-mouth
> > >by happy users.
> > >
> > >Janice
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Cindy
> > >Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:18 PM
> > >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Braille Harry
> Potter
> > >
> > >I had hope this article, and others like it that
> I
> > saw
> > >on google news, would mention bookshare, but it
> > >didn't. Still it's interesting that NBP is making
> > the
> > >book available quickly. I think bookshare needs a
> > >press agent to get similar articles into
> > newspapers.
> > >
> > >Cindy
> > >
> > >The long wait is over for Harry Potter's blind
> fans
> > >By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Writer |
> > July
> > >12, 2005
> > >
> > >BOSTON --Like millions of Harry Potter fans,
> > Katherine
> > >Moss can't wait to get her fingers on a copy of
> the
> > >sixth entry in J.K. Rowling's best-selling
> series.
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> > >And for once, the 16-year-old blind student won't
> > have
> > >to wait months longer than her sighted friends to
> > dive
> > >into "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
> > >The book goes on sale at midnight Friday. A
> Braille
> > >edition is due out three days later -- much
> earlier
> > >than with previous Harry Potter books, thanks to
> a
> > new
> > >arrangement between the publisher, Scholastic
> Inc.,
> > >and the National Braille Press in Boston.
> > >Moss, a student at the Perkins School for the
> Blind
> > in
> > >Watertown, doesn't want the book read aloud to
> her.
> > >She wants to savor each word of the text at her
> own
> > >pace.
> > >"When I read it in Braille, it takes me a lot
> > longer,"
> > >she said. "That's a good thing. Usually, I don't
> > want
> > >it to end. That's how much of a reader I am."
> > >For the first time, Scholastic provided the
> > National
> > >Braille Press with an advance copy of the Harry
> > Potter
> > >book, which is kept under tight wraps.
> > >For the past two weeks, more than four dozen
> > employees
> > >at the Boston printing house have been working
> > >overtime to print a batch of 800 Braille copies
> of
> > the
> > >"Half-Blood Prince."
> > >Tanya Holton, NBP's vice president of
> development,
> > >said it usually takes months, if not a year or
> two,
> > >for published books to make it into Braille form.
> > >"This is the only book we have blitzed like this
> > >before, because readers are clamoring for it,"
> > Holton
> > >said.
> > >At 1,100 pages, the Braille edition is nearly
> twice
> > as
> > >long as the hardcover version. It comes in nine
> > >volumes, takes up 13 1/2 inches of shelf space
> and
> > >weighs about 11 pounds.
> > >Each Braille book costs $62 to produce, but the
> > >nonprofit NBP is selling them for $17.99 -- the
> > same
> > >as Amazon.com, according to Holton. A local
> lumber
> > >retailer donated $100,000 to help make up the
> > >difference.
> > >"This is not about charity. It's about parity,"
> > Holton
> > >said. "We're not here to make a profit. We're
> here
> > to
> > >get books in the hands of children. A blind kid
> > >deserves the same books as a sighted child."
> > >A blind reader's options are relatively limited,
> > >however. Only 500 to 600 new Braille titles are
> > >published each year -- only about 1 percent of
> all
> > >books published, according to Kim Charlson, the
> > >Perkins School's library director.
> > >"Braille is such an important skill," said
> > Charlson,
> > >who is blind. "Nothing compares to a kid being
> able
> > to
> > >read for themselves."
> > >Moss is still waiting for a Braille version of
> > >Katherine Paterson's "Lyddie," a 1991 book about
> a
> > >young girl's struggle to survive poverty in
> > >19th-century New England.
> > >"A lot of books aren't available in Braille," she
> > >said. "I don't like that. I don't like that at
> > all."
> > >At the Perkins School, the waiting list for the
> new
> > >Harry Potter book already has at least two dozen
> > >names. More than 300 people have pre-ordered the
> > book
> > >from NBP.
> > >"It's so important for blind children to have
> > access
> > >to the same cultural phenomena at the same time
> as
> > >their peers," Holton said.
> > >------
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