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

[Stager, Catherine]

There are multiple versions on Bookshare, however that edition is not on Bookshare. The Open Library does have the text<https://archive.org/details/nicomacheanethic0000aris_w5n4>.  We have a Getting Started Guide for "Print Disabled Books"<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUMTAr_tPcaqMRyqw4oDan_8Ias2bS-p/view?usp=sharing> that can help get an account set up on the Open Library so you or your student can download.

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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!


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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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Charlotte Norton
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