[Athen] Publisher response question

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks all!

I just wanted to put it out there to see if anyone had seen such an email.
I was definitely flabbergasted when I read it. The day that I sent this
email was the day that we had received the email from MH.  Ron is correct
in that MH used to be great to work with but now they have gone 180
degrees.

We were requesting the file in order to proceed with conversion. We are
waiting for the student to respond to our request to use their book to
debind and scan. We will either use their book or purchase one ourselves to
use. We always go directly to the publishers as we are not a member of ATN
due to their contractual requirements.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had difficulty believing the MH email!

Thanks again!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Ron <ronrstewart at gmail.com> wrote:


> To put in my two sense worth, I think I am entitled since I have led the

> nation effort in this space for most of the last 14 years. MH while

> they used to be one of the best to deal with, have recently become one of

> the worse. All the major publishers have retrenched in the last few years

> due to the limbo that federal guidance is in. I actually always recommend

> you go direct to th publisher. ATN is a publisher controlled publisher

> funded source file system.

>

> When it comes to print on demand or custom editions often times the

> publisher does not maintain the source files. This means they cannot

> reproduce them even if they wanted to. If it is a digital publication none

> of the various "laws" are even relevant since the only speak to hard copy

> print publications. One of the things that has become cloudy in recent days

> is "what is the publishers responsibility". Frankly the do not have on.

> Responsibility for compliance with Section 504 is entirely on the

> institution you work for.

>

> I know reality sucks.

>

> Ron Stewart

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> On Thursday, February 18, 2016, James Bailey <jbailey at uoregon.edu> wrote:

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>> I **really** agree with Shawn. These were my very first thoughts upon

>> reading the original post.

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>> James

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>> James Bailey M.S.

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>> Associate Director

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>> Accessible Education Center

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>> University of Oregon

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>> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu]

>> *On Behalf Of *Shawn Foster

>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 11:32 AM

>> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

>> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Publisher response question

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>> Honestly, if they were asking me to put that much effort into scanning,

>> just to get a PDF, I'd probably just finish scanning out the book and get

>> moving on production instead. That's ridiculous.

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>> Now, if they had an edited, accessible version, and scanning all of that

>> was the price of admission to that accessible version, I might have a

>> different response. However, I somehow doubt that that's the case. ;)

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>> sf

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>> *Shawn Foster*

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>> Disability Resources Coordinator | U-CAM Coordinator

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>> Southern Oregon University | 1250 Siskiyou Blvd | Ashland OR  97520

>> 541-552-6213

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>> Why I'm at SOU: http://youtu.be/Ski0MzPd5IM

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>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com>

>> wrote:

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>> Hi all,

>>

>> We are attempting to obtain a textbook file from McGraw Hill and received

>> a message I've never seen before from any publisher. I understand the

>> reason they state in the email, but am curious if anyone else has received

>> this type of email when requesting a file needed to produce an accessible

>> alternative format?

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>> Before we process your request, we need the below information –

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>> ·        Scanned copies of entire two chapter (any two chapters)

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>> ·        Scanned copies of the Content pages and the

>> Contributor/Bibliography pages.

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>> ·        Name of the Author, Edition and Copyright year of the McGraw

>> Hill book “Cultural Readings”

>>

>> Please understand that this work being a possible compilation has a lot

>> of third party material. Hence we will have to look into the scanned pages

>> to determine McGraw Hill rights on them .

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>> Thanks, all!

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>> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

>> Associate Director

>> Center for Educational Access

>> University of Arkansas

>> ARKU 209

>> Fayetteville, AR 72701

>> 479.575.3104

>> 479.575.7445 fax

>> 479.575.3646 tdd

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