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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">CengageBrain did always have an internal e-reader, but reading between the lines, it seems that they are going to launch a new one. I think theirs wasn’t on the list because you only used it if you were enrolled
in a CengageBraine course, so it was considered more of an LMS though in fact it was a browser-based e-reader for the textbook that was included in the course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">That blog is announcing it’s going to happen! The new reader has probably not yet been tested, but the idea is that instead of the books from Cengage being available on VitalSource, a platform that serves multiple
publishers, it now will be all internal to Cengage and more under their control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Wershing, Alice D.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2019 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] New e-reader for Cengage Brain and Cengage Unlimited users<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I just looked at the list on the
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__epubtest.org_results&d=DwMFAg&c=WORo6LNFtQOb4SPVta8Jsg&r=K_2Yg4I05GGnHlSOevlp3QeE5-JEqtmoUnmP0YVj9ZM&m=EgBShJAKgf3TSbpc23QkQ9NWhdjDPm0s23FOFDU8elc&s=0yb-CdzB17fRAGT8iBPfSJVEpM14a23nFPhpL4or-ws&e=">
reading systems website</a> and I do not see anything about Cengage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Kelmer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2019 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] New e-reader for Cengage Brain and Cengage Unlimited users<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As usual, publishers are deciding how our students are to access their materials. This is not their job, nor their purview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Publishers like to say they are listening to us.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">They are not. They never have. And this is unfortunate for our students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">On the plus side, none of us will be unemployed anytime soon, as there will still be a need for us to remediate materials to fit the student’s needs!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Susan Kelmer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Disability Services<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Colorado Boulder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">303-735-4836<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah Armstrong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] New e-reader for Cengage Brain and Cengage Unlimited users<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog.vitalsource.com_update-2Dfor-2Dusers&d=DwMFAg&c=WORo6LNFtQOb4SPVta8Jsg&r=K_2Yg4I05GGnHlSOevlp3QeE5-JEqtmoUnmP0YVj9ZM&m=EgBShJAKgf3TSbpc23QkQ9NWhdjDPm0s23FOFDU8elc&s=zg16vVGMOnD69Uam9h-chH_rOyU4DfskqSzNtNXCtJ0&e=">https://blog.vitalsource.com/update-for-users</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is from the VitalSource blog. Apparently Cengage is pulling many of their textbooks off VitalSource and their new home will be an internal e-reader.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My experience with students is even when an e-reader is fairly accessible, the students want to stick with a tool they know, whether it’s their Kindle, Balabolka, K3000 or Read and Write.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m guessing that Cengage, like Pearson is going to “certify” more and more of their content as accessible and encourage students to buy a textbook in the e-reader.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have some experience with Cengage Brain, and on the positive side, there seems to be a “read aloud” button on every page so you can use the voice built in to your OS to listen to that page, as long as your browser and OS supports that.
There also seems to be captioning on most of the videos for the two courses with which I have experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the negative side, a book that has charts, tables and similar visual content may or may not have descriptions, and even when descriptions exist, if the image is just a picture of text – such as a picture of a spreadsheet or computer
screen, the description won’t contain the actual text.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Debee<o:p></o:p></p>
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