Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world. This is an area of special focus for our Bookshare team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Many print-disabled people (people who are blind, severely dyslexic or a have a physical disability that keeps them from reading regular print books) see electronic books as a dream come true. But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. I am a book lover, and have many books on my shelves.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). Our primary goal is to ensure that people with disabilities get equal access to the books and content they need for education, employment, leisure and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

They include people who are blind, visually impaired, have dyslexia, or have a physical disability that prevents them from reading regular printed books. The Marrakesh Treaty makes it easier for nonprofits, schools, government agencies, and individuals with disabilities to convert inaccessible print books into accessible equivalents.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With technology, you can do incredible things, but with a galvanized community of supporters who work together toward a greater good, we can do anything. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

This revised project included the conversion of books into accessible formats and working with multiple schools. Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it. Marrakesh is intended to end the book famine for people who can’t read regular books because of their disability. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. exception model works well here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. We scan the books in the U.S., Benetech is a tech social enterprise. I think the team was thrilled to have someone from Bookshare visit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. It’s expensive to make braille books. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. This is because e-books (unlike traditional print) can easily be rendered in many different ways and presented in the format that best suits one’s needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. Why have public decision-making?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. The Reading Rights Coalition is fighting against being locked out of these books by DRM, what is often called soundproofing the book after the paper George Kerscher and I wrote years ago.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. 500,000 Grant Winners. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Using the 18-page ebook, youll learn : •what a strategic messaging plan should encompass (and what it shouldn’t). Thanks David, for another useful ebook! "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. •how to identify the right tone and content.

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