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  Benetech launches “Accessible Books for Texas” with funding from Texas Education Agency

  2614 readersFrom the press release: Benetech today announced that it was recently awarded a contract with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to conduct training and outreach on the benefits of accessible instructional materials (AIM) for K-12 students with disabilities in Texas and to ensure availability of AIM through a dedicated conversion effort on a specific set of

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  Bookshare celebrates 10 years of providing eBooks to those with print disabilities, by Sue Polanka

  673 readers March 12, 2012 – Palo Alto, CA – Bookshare, the global leader in providing digital accessible books to people with print disabilities, today announced its 10th anniversary. Throughout the last ten years, Bookshare has been at the forefront of the digital book revolution, applying Silicon Valley technology to pioneer an innovative new approach to a

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  Bookshare Passes 150,000 Student Members & 125,000 Titles

  1083 readers From the press release: Bookshare® a global leader in copyrighted, digital accessible books for people with print disabilities, is dramatically overachieving its five year collection and member targets at the close of its fourth year of funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).   Benetech®, the parent

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  Wiley to Contribute eBooks to Bookshare

  2123 readersJohn Wiley & Sons, a leading publisher of scientific, technical, and academic books, has agreed to provide Bookshare, the online accessible library, with digital files for its collection. Bookshare, a cooperative project led by Benetech, is the wo...

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  Tools of Change: Keynote – Making the book truly accessible, by Jim Fruchterman

  1341 readersJim Fruchterman of Benetech and BookShare Taking care of people with disabilities. Need to make the book truly accessible. Founded Bookshare, largest online library for poeple with print disabilities. Users download over 1 million books a year, but not doing nearly enough to get to disabled readers. Blind, low vision, quadriplegic, etc. People who just

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  Bookshare introduces new products for disabled readers

  339 readersBy Susan Lulgjuraj Bookshare has developed two new digital products to help those with disabilities. Bookshare’s Web Reader and Bookshelf were announced at the Assistive Technology Industry Association conference, held January 30 through February 2 in Orlando, Fla. The products were created to help those with impairments such as learning disabilities, physical disabilities or low vision. The

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  Read2Go Accessible e-Book Reader App

  651 readersIf you have a reading disability and are qualified to use Bookshare, then there is a new ereader app available.  Here is part of the review of it from TechLearning: Quality and Effectiveness Bookshare materials are available in several formats, including HTML, Text, Braille and DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System).  Recently Bookshare released Read2Go, an iPad app

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  Read2Go Accessible e-Book Reader App

  1110 readersIf you have a reading disability and are qualified to use Bookshare, then there is a new ereader app available.  Here is part of the review of it from TechLearning: Quality and Effectiveness Bookshare materials are available in several formats, including HTML, Text, Braille and DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System).  Recently Bookshare released Read2Go, an iPad app

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  Bookshare Hits 150,000 Student Members

  1384 readersThe non-profit digital library has set a new milestone – just in time for its 4th anniversary. Bookshare boasts that it now supports over 150 thousand students in the US from a supply of over 120 thousand titles. What sets Bookshare apart from your average digital library is its members. Bookshare was founded with one goal:

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  Bookstream™: a new cloud-based library to deliver ebooks

  2068 readers From the press release: This school year, educators will have a new option to deliver their books. In addition to handing out textbooks in class, they will deliver eBooks through the cloud to students’ iPads, smartphones, and laptops with a new online service called Bookstream. Bookstream, developed by Don Johnston Incorporated, makes