[Athen] [EXT] Need advice for dealing with a publishing company

[kerscher at montana.com]

Hi,

 

I downloaded this title from Bookshare a couple of months ago. It is in
EPUB, and I found it to be terrific. I am using NVDA, but it would work
great with JAWS as well. I used the freely available Thorium reader. Thorium
also has great features for changing fonts and colors, and also has
excellent read aloud functions.


All students in the USA with print disabilities can get a free subscription
to Bookshare through a grant from the Office of Special Education Programs.

 

There are also other formats available from Bookshare, but IMO the EPUB
version would be an excellent choice.

 

Best

George

 

 

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This publisher states n their website that they only provide accessible
copies of their books to Bookshare. I have not been able to get anything
from them.

 

Good luck!

 

 

Robert Lee Beach

Assistive Technology Specialist - Student Accessibility & Support Services

 

Kansas City Kansas Community College

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Hello All! 

 

I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with the publishing company
Penguin Random House on getting books in accessible format? 

 

I have reach out to them a few times and keep getting the response  "we
don't have that book in accessible format/PDF"

 

I am trying to get the book Nicomachean Ethics (ISBN: 9780140449495)

I have looked on bookshare and accesstext doesn't work with that publishing
company.

 

Any suggestions on how to get this book before I have to resort to cutting
and scanning it?

 

Thank you in advance. 

 

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