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

[E.A. Draffan]

Congratulations Norm coming from UK side of the Atlantic and I am just so
sorry to be missing your webinar due to a certain Royal Wedding day holiday
we shall be celebrating with family around.  I do hope it goes well and
hopefully one day Bookshare will be able to make sure your book can come to
the UK along with the others they are offering us at the moment! 

Happy Easter holiday. 

Best wishes E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab,
ECS, University of Southampton,
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info


-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Hayman
Sent: 15 April 2011 21:38
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Signs Agreement to Provide
Titles to Bookshare

Nice job Norm!



Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>
Technology Specialist
DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology) UW
Technology Services Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 221-4165
http://www.washington.edu/doit

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

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>> 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

>> 

>> Feed: DAISY Consortium Current News Posts 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.htm

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