Dear Preeti, I am happy to explain more about book rights and why some books are not available in all countries. However, I must first make it very clear to you and everyone that Bookshare books may never be shared, even among Bookshare members. When you joined Bookshare, you agreed to the terms of service, which include only downloading books for your own personal use. If you share books, you violate your agreement and risk having your account shut down.
There are two reasons that some books are not available: When books come from publishers, the publishers have given permission for us to share the books in specific countries. Publishers frequently buy and sell book distribution rights from/to each other. If they don't have the right to distribute the book in a particular country, they can't give us permission to share it either. If books are scanned under the American copyright law, they are only available to members in the US. If there is a book you want that is not available to you, it can be added to Bookshare under the Indian Copyright Law. (In that case, it would only be able to people in India.) Please send a message to [email protected]. Best, Kristina Pappas International Program Manager Bookshare.org -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:21:03 +0530 From: Preeti Bhutani <[email protected]> To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled." <[email protected]> Subject: [AI] indian fiction on bookshare Message-ID: <ca+7mseyekfybjg7xckfavyyjoqvrvsawe-lytmoz6j+ensr...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Recently , I became a member of bookshare. I searched for some Indian fiction books . some of the books I wanted to read are available. , but to my surprise I cannot download them . these are restricted for Indian residents. This rule seems unfair. Is there anybody on the forum who lives abroad and can download the eboks for me I will be very. grateful if somebody could help me Regards Preeti Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
