Place the blame where it belongs, not on the countries, but on the
publishers who want to hold on to their money. It is only through a
national distribution system making promises of certification for
recipients of the material that any of us gets any free electronic
text. It would be great if there was some kind of sharing mechanism,
but, I am glad for what we have. Maybe, those of you not in the U.S.
should try to work through your various equivalent
organizations/government entities to come up with global solutions.
Those of us in the U.S. should try to do the same so that we can get
information from other countries.
Diane Bomar
At 12:42 PM 10/5/2006, you wrote:
Ottawa Canada
Dear Chris:
Well in general it seems electronic texts bring out the
nationalism in suppliers.
CNIB only makes its materials available to Canadians, NLS only to
Americans and I do believe at least one electronic library in the
UK makes its materials available to anyone who is blind anywhere.
Brian
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