Audio eBook India Technology 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). Steve went to India for more tests. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. and we needed more help.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. It’s expensive to adapt textbooks to be accessible. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Technological Protection Measures. It doesn’t cover movies.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.
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