Hi, I don’t know about the particular agreement you speak of, but I have received electronic copies of books from publishers and authors for my studies based on the simple and rather obvious understanding that I have purchased a hard copy of the said book, and that I won’t distribute copies of the same. Some authors gave me the electronic version even without demanding a proof of purchase. Of course not all publishers were willing to do this.
The only agreement I know of is the one that publishers make with a disability office attached usually to an educational institution. The person in charge of this arrangement is suppose to provide a copy of the book to the student(s) As far as I know this isn’t very common in India or many other countries. Perhaps XRCVC from Mumbai may be doing something in this regard. Regards --- On Mon, 6/28/10, L I <[email protected]> wrote: > From: L I <[email protected]> > Subject: [AI] Query about agreements between publishing companies and private > users > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 7:55 PM > > Dear AI-members, > At the website > http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/channelpost/600354 > I made a query and I would love to see you participating. > The content of the query is given below. You can also > forward the text to other mailing lists or persons you know > and who might take interest in it, too. > > Thank you for your attention, > Best wishes, > Lilya I > > Beside the possibility to get accessible books from > institutions like libraries and schools for the blind some > publishing companies are offering the option > to provide blind or partially sighted students with > electronic books as long an agreement between the concerned > company and private user is being signed > up. I would like to know what experiences you made with > these publishing companies, what basic conditions you had to > accept and fulfil and which documents > were required from you. If you don’t want to make the > company’s names public you can write to me in a message or > just give a general report here. The results > of the query will be used for a paper about accessible > books for blind and partially sighted students and > researchers. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1006xHMTL4 > Künftig E-Mails über Hotmail ohne Werbung versenden! > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of > persons with disability bill at: > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm > > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any > other changes, please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
