[Athen] AltFormat Survey

[Russell Solowoniuk]

Thanks Gaeir!  Very helpful!

Russell


>>> "Gaeir Dietrich" <gdietrich at htctu.net> 4/22/2014 12:32 PM >>>

Yes R&W Gold works with Bookshare files. 

Also, if you want Bookshare files in a Word (RTF) format, you can use the
free tool from Tech Adapt:
http://accessiblemediacenter.techadapt.com/ 

I understand the copyright issues you face, but if a publisher is doing the
fulfillment for alt formats through Bookshare, perhaps you could ask the
publisher for an e-mail giving Bookshare permission to release the file to
you. The publisher owns the copyright, so they are well within their rights
to direct Bookshare to provide you the file.

Good luck!

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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] AltFormat Survey

Hi Ron and all,

I'm getting to this a bit late, and, some of our challenges have already
been touched on, but here are a few...

1. We have had publishers, mainly Cambridge, tell us that their books are
available through Bookshare, so they will not provide us with publisher
files.  We are located in Canada, so many of the textbooks are not available
to us, although I did have someone from Bookshare tell me that they might be
able to make some of those textbooks available to us.  Many of our students
use Read and Write Gold, and I'm not sure how well RWG works with Bookshare
files... can anyone comment on this?

2. Publishers who refuse to provide electronic files.  These include
Penguin, Waveland Press, Random House, and some other smaller publishers.

3. Publishers who still insist on sending files on CD... John Wiley & Sons
US and Pearson UK... this greatly increases the turnaround time to get files
into the hands of students.

4. Publishers putting out new editions of their textbooks every year or two,
with only minor changes to the content.

5. Instructors waiting till the last minute to choose which textbooks they
will use for their course.

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks,

Russell


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>>> "Ron Stewart" <ron at altformatsolutions.com> 4/2/2014 8:06 AM >>>

Good morning all I have been asked to develop a survey of the biggest
challenges in the AltFormat space.  Can you send me what you find to be the
"pain points" in the provision and delivery of your alt format obligations I
will work with my team to develop a survey that will be distributed in the
coming months.

 

Ron Stewart

 

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