the ibook and ibook store are only for the ipad wich isn't out yet. there may/could be a version for the mac. but i haven't heard anything yet.
On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Cameron wrote: > Hi. On the mac side, keep in mind that we've got I book and the IBook store > as a possible solution for literature access. Although, not sure on the > accessibility front as I haven't had any hands on experience with it yet. > > If anybody has, then please post your findings. > > Thanks, > > Cameron. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chantel Cuddemi > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 5:31 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: A call to action! > > Will this work on the mac platform? > On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: > >> actually, knfb reading technologies will be coming out with a reading > program called blio and it will work on a lot of devices and a few > publishers have partnered with them and i hope more will follow. >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Jess wrote: >> >>> "use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it." Nice idea, but more > and more books are being converted to E Text, and with apps like the kindle, > you pay the same price you would pay for a paperback in a physical book > store. My point is, when paperbacks and hardbacks are no more, what will we > do to have access to E Books? The time is now, folks. If there was ever a > time to stand up and demand our rights to have access to the same content as > our sighted friends, it is now. Not two months from now, not two years from > now, not two decades. The time is now. >>>> >>>> >>> On Jan 7, 2001, at 5:27 PM, sandi sørensen wrote: >>> >>>> use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it. >>>> I use my scanner constantly and hate wasting time on scanning them, but > if you fly rc planes like i do and wanna be good thaht is the way to go, > cause i simply can not get them as ebooks. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> sandi >>>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Jess wrote: >>>> >>>>> First, a question. >>>>> How many people like to read books? I know I do. How many people were > overjoyed that entire text books were going to be put online? I was. > However, a lot of EBooks cannot be read by any screen reader we have today. > Why? Simply put, the text of the book is contained within an OCR image, and > there is a special reader required to read them. These are not your standard > PDF files, and the books are protected by DRM, so there is no way to extract > the contents into programs like text edit. >>>>> As a book worm, I tried out the Kindle app for the IPhone, and was > delighted to find that a book that I wanted to read was available on the > Kindle store. However, my joy turned to bitter disappointment when I > realized that while I could navigate the book's table of contents, cover, > and chapters to an extent, the text was completely inaccessible. > Furthermore, my text books for my classes were not usable. Ladies and > gentlemen, I fear that unless we as blind consumers stand up, and demand > that these publishers put their text books into standard native file > formats, such as pdf or doc, we will lose a lot of access to books, and our > chances to succeed at college will be severely diminished. So, anyone have > any thoughts of what to do? >>>>> I thought about starting a petition to ask Amazon to require their > publishers to make their books usable, but figured that I would be a > laughing stock for doing so, as most publishers probably wouldn't have the > time to read, much less consider what I was asking for. >>>>> My point is, as long as E texts get more and more graphical, our > chances to read will be greatly impaired, and as more and more books become > exclusively online, we will lose access to the latest editions of books > altogether. 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