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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. How can we solve a centuries-old problem for so little money? We have the ebooks. We have a new business model.

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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With each card sent, donors make a donation to a charity of their choice ($1 or more) instead of wasting money and resources on paper cards and stamps. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. Owned by Facebook, Instagram recently launched “Shopping Checkout” for businesses.

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think it’s time to write a series of short essays on the struggle for accessible books, starting with this brouhaha. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. Ebooks on PCs have had text-to-speech capabilities for years (although not always enabled).

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Why You Shouldn't Depend on a For-Profit Business to Defend Your Civil Rights The Kindle2 is a hot topic in the disability field right now. But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. And that is setting back the cause of people with disabilities who need that kind of access. Roy Blount Jr.

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How To Attract New Potential Donors With 3 Questions And A 6-Step Process

Bloomerang

saving lives is the highest goal: get people access to clean water quickly. raise money as quickly as possible to build more wells. The beauty of creating a digital resource like an eBook, video, or online course is that you create it once and use it over and over again. Use a sentence like this: “Before you go, open the eBook.

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