I think the main difference between access to books by means of the Kindle and by means of Bookshare is that Bookshare is a lot easier on your bank account. "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:30 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT More Abouth the Kindle
I don't see the difference between access to a Kindle's book via spoken output and access via BookShare. I'd be curious to see if Random House were cooperating in the PQ book program.----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT More Abouth the KindleThis is such a tough issue. I feel frozen out by the Kindle, and yet I know Amazon was under a great deal of pressure too. I'm not happy with Amazon's choice. I am more angry with the publishers and the Author's Guild than at Amazon though. I think the ACB should be suing the Author's Guild as well asthe universities. The Author's Guild has more direct control over thissituation. They might settle out of court by providing all Kindle content toBookshare in its e-pub format to make the negative press go away. Theuniversities can't do that. They don't have the authority. All they can do is stop buying Kindles. That won't get us what we want, access to the books.It's just going to annoy faculty and students without fixing the root problem.I will be happy if the publishers make their books available to Bookshare. Then I won't care what Amazon does with their Kindle. It will be irrelevantto me, just like digital cameras. I still shop at Amazon. I don't see them as being particularly negative.They're in business. They have to keep their suppliers happy, or they lose business. It's a fact of life when money is involved. I've already figured out that I'm small potatoes compared to losing the Random House product line and the sales coming from it. Were I in a similar place, if I had to choose between losing 100 customers or losing a supplier and 10,000 customers, I'm going to let the 100 customers go. I'll be able to work on regaining some of the 100 customers later. And yes, that's cold, and it sucks. In no way is itfair. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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