[AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private users
Dear AI-members, At the website http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/channelpost/600354 I made a query and I would love to see you participating. The content of the query is given below. You can also forward the text to other mailing lists or persons you know and who might take interest in it, too. Thank you for your attention, Best wishes, Lilya I Beside the possibility to get accessible books from institutions like libraries and schools for the blind some publishing companies are offering the option to provide blind or partially sighted students with electronic books as long an agreement between the concerned company and private user is being signed up. I would like to know what experiences you made with these publishing companies, what basic conditions you had to accept and fulfil and which documents were required from you. If you don’t want to make the company’s names public you can write to me in a message or just give a general report here. The results of the query will be used for a paper about accessible books for blind and partially sighted students and researchers. _ http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1006xHMTL4 Künftig E-Mails über Hotmail ohne Werbung versenden! Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private users
Hi, I don’t know about the particular agreement you speak of, but I have received electronic copies of books from publishers and authors for my studies based on the simple and rather obvious understanding that I have purchased a hard copy of the said book, and that I won’t distribute copies of the same. Some authors gave me the electronic version even without demanding a proof of purchase. Of course not all publishers were willing to do this. The only agreement I know of is the one that publishers make with a disability office attached usually to an educational institution. The person in charge of this arrangement is suppose to provide a copy of the book to the student(s) As far as I know this isn’t very common in India or many other countries. Perhaps XRCVC from Mumbai may be doing something in this regard. Regards --- On Mon, 6/28/10, L I larkascend...@hotmail.de wrote: From: L I larkascend...@hotmail.de Subject: [AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private users To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 7:55 PM Dear AI-members, At the website http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/channelpost/600354 I made a query and I would love to see you participating. The content of the query is given below. You can also forward the text to other mailing lists or persons you know and who might take interest in it, too. Thank you for your attention, Best wishes, Lilya I Beside the possibility to get accessible books from institutions like libraries and schools for the blind some publishing companies are offering the option to provide blind or partially sighted students with electronic books as long an agreement between the concerned company and private user is being signed up. I would like to know what experiences you made with these publishing companies, what basic conditions you had to accept and fulfil and which documents were required from you. If you don’t want to make the company’s names public you can write to me in a message or just give a general report here. The results of the query will be used for a paper about accessible books for blind and partially sighted students and researchers. _ http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1006xHMTL4 Künftig E-Mails über Hotmail ohne Werbung versenden! Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private users
Dear Lilya, XRCVC started the work of publishers contact three years ago and since the Daisy forum of India (DFI) has formed we approach publishers as DFI’s publisher’s contact initiative and ask for e-text of books for converting them into accessible DAISY format. We (DFI) have signed agreements with few publishers including good mainstream publishers like Oxford, SAGE, Cambridge, etc. The agreement is clearly mentioning that permission is for converting these books into DAISY and will be distributed only to the print disabled persons through DFI member organizations. One of the achievement for XRCVC and DFI was to bring Bookshare in India and now very actively DFI and Bookshare are contacting publishers and got good success. To read more about this visit http://www.daisyindia.org/for_publishers.htm Also visit http://www.xrcvc.org/print_access.php Regards, Prashant Naik Project Manager, XRCVC On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Roopakshi Pathania r_akshi_...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi, I don’t know about the particular agreement you speak of, but I have received electronic copies of books from publishers and authors for my studies based on the simple and rather obvious understanding that I have purchased a hard copy of the said book, and that I won’t distribute copies of the same. Some authors gave me the electronic version even without demanding a proof of purchase. Of course not all publishers were willing to do this. The only agreement I know of is the one that publishers make with a disability office attached usually to an educational institution. The person in charge of this arrangement is suppose to provide a copy of the book to the student(s) As far as I know this isn’t very common in India or many other countries. Perhaps XRCVC from Mumbai may be doing something in this regard. Regards --- On Mon, 6/28/10, L I larkascend...@hotmail.de wrote: From: L I larkascend...@hotmail.de Subject: [AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private users To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 7:55 PM Dear AI-members, At the website http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/channelpost/600354 I made a query and I would love to see you participating. The content of the query is given below. You can also forward the text to other mailing lists or persons you know and who might take interest in it, too. Thank you for your attention, Best wishes, Lilya I Beside the possibility to get accessible books from institutions like libraries and schools for the blind some publishing companies are offering the option to provide blind or partially sighted students with electronic books as long an agreement between the concerned company and private user is being signed up. I would like to know what experiences you made with these publishing companies, what basic conditions you had to accept and fulfil and which documents were required from you. If you don’t want to make the company’s names public you can write to me in a message or just give a general report here. The results of the query will be used for a paper about accessible books for blind and partially sighted students and researchers. _ http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1006xHMTL4 Künftig E-Mails über Hotmail ohne Werbung versenden! Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
