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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. And that's just two examples. Her conclusion was no, and her research was well done.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And we’re busy discussing with educators and publishers how we can bring Bookshare-style accessible content to the ten times as many students who could benefit from talking books but don’t qualify under the very limited copyright exemption. If we’re going to speak truth to power, then we need to make sure that we are speaking truth.