If that is indeed the case, how do you explain this then? Cheers,
Blake.
---- Original Message ------
From: "Allison Hilliker" <[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Ot question
Date sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:55:05 -0700
Hi Blake and Matt,
Bookshare membership isn't dependent upon one's citizenship. It
is related
more to where one lives. Any non-US citizen can become a full
Bookshare
member if he or she is living inside the US or one of its
territories. For
folks who live outside of the US, international Bookshare
memberships are
available. One would sign up for Bookshare like a regular
member, but you
only have access to the books in our collection that have been
given
world-wide copyright permissions. Currently that is roughly 20%
of our
books. We would love to make more of our books available
world-wide, but
the copyright laws that make Bookshare legal only apply within
the US. So
what Bookshare has to do is approach each individual publisher
and ask
whether or not we can get world-wide access to their books. This
is a slow
process and not all publishers are agreeable. But thankfully
we've been
successful with many of them. For example, HarperCollins has
given us
world-wide access rights to its books. Nearly any Bookshare
title from
HarperCollins is available to our international members. We've
also just
hired a publisher liaison who is working to obtain more
internationally
available books.
Here's a link to more information about Bookshare's international
memberships.
http://www.bookshare.org/about/internationalMembership
Feel free to write me if you have any further questions.
Best,
Allison Hilliker
Collection Development Associate
WWW.Bookshare.Org
E-mail [email protected]
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity - A
Nonprofit
Organization
---- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Lyles" <[email protected]
To: "blake" <[email protected]
Cc: <[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Ot question
One of us could e-mail the file probably. But are you sure Book
Share
has no membership option for nonU.S. citizens? My friend
Allision (a
Book Share rep) could tell us.
Matt Lyles
Agent, Life/Health Department
Campbell and Company Insurance
Phone: (870) 837-2155
E-mail: [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: blake [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:00 AM
To: Matt Lyles
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Ot question
Hi there. Because I am not a us sitison, I am not allowed to
access bookshare. Any other suggestions? Cheers, Blake.
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