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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

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Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? available for free at your library and on the web. Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order. Why does it matter that CreateSpace is owned by Amazon?

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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