[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:50:26 -0500
Prat,
You are such a willing volunteer. You were willing to transcribe for those
with hearing impairments for the bookshare conference, but then they changed
it to telephone rather than computer. I, for one, have not forgotten that
you were willing though if you attended.
Thanks much for all you do.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Braille Harry Potter
I'm willing to do it gratis. I like the tax deduction idea.
Prat
Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
ppatel@xxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
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[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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