[Athen] FW: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Signs Agreement to Provide Titles to Bookshare

Doug Hayman dhayman at u.washington.edu
Fri Apr 15 13:37:43 PDT 2011


Nice job Norm!



Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>
Technology Specialist
DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology)
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Prof Norm Coombs wrote:


> Hi Friends. This wiley deal is one of my most proud accomplishments. They

> asked me to write a book on accessible e-learning. I said I'd only do it if

> they made it accessible to which they agreed. I then leaned on them to issue

> my book through Bookshare. When their lawyers started looking into it, they

> decided they'd not only do my book but open up most of their books!!!!

>

> Praise God. One little shove moved a mountain!!

>

> Oh my book was published last October

> Making online teaching accessible. From Bookshare, Wiley and also Amazon.

>

> Oh and I'll be doing an EASI public Webinar with an overview of the book and

> what I tried to do with it on Aprill 29

> reserve a seat at

> http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

>

> Norm Coombs

> At 12:33 PM 4/15/2011, you wrote:

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>> Great!

>>

>>

>> Dan Burke

>> Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator

>>

>> Disability Services for Students

>> The University of Montana

>> Emma B. Lommasson Center 154

>> Missoula, MT 59812

>>

>> 406.243.4424

>> 406.243.5330 FAX

>>

>> www.umt.edu/disability

>>

>> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

>> Behalf Of Ron Stewart

>> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:00 PM

>> To: aheadmembers at listserve.com; Access Technology Higher Education Network

>> Subject: [Athen] FW: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,Signs Agreement to Provide

>> Titles to Bookshare

>>

>> Hi Folks, I thought you would find this to be good news. I know how much

>> some of you have struggled to get titles from some of these Wiley imprints.

>>

>> Ron Stewart

>>

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>> Posted on: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:24 AM

>> Author: VLuceno

>> Subject: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Signs Agreement to Provide Titles to

>> Bookshare

>>

>>

>> John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a leading publisher serving the professional,

>> consumer, scientific, technical, medical and academic communities

>> worldwide, has agreed to provide Bookshare with digital files of

>> professional and trade titles for their collection. This agreement will

>> broaden the access of people with disabilities to Wiley content.

>>

>> ???We???re very pleased to add such popular and useful books to

>> Bookshare,??? said Betsy Beaumon, Vice President and General Manager of the

>> Literacy Program at Benetech, the nonprofit organization that operates

>> Bookshare. "Working directly with Wiley, we are expanding our collection of

>> accessible titles and continuing to knock down barriers to access, ensuring

>> that people with print disabilities have the same breadth and depth of

>> titles to choose from as people without print disabilities.???

>>

>> As a result of the agreement, Bookshare will provide access to a selection

>> of Wiley titles targeting professionals and general consumers, covering a

>> variety of subjects, published under its For Dummies, Frommer's, Webster's

>> New World, Jossey-Bass, Pfeiffer, Cliffs Notes, Wrox, J.K. Lasser, Sybex,

>> Fisher Investments Press, and Bloomberg Press brands. More information can

>> be found in the

>> <http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/4/prweb8300575.htm>Bookshare press

>> release.

>>

>>

>> <http://www.daisy.org/news-detail/924>View article...

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> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

> Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve

> Norman Coombs norm.coombs at gmail.com

>

> Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with

> Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010

> http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html

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