Contact information:

• Frederick Bowes, III (Rick)

Digital Versions, LLC

PO Box 1637, Duxbury, MA 02331-1637

Email: rbowes@bowesweb.com

Phone: 781-934-7432

Fax: 781-934-6597

Pkgs: 47 Harden Hill Rd., Duxbury, MA 02332

Speaker Notes:

Please feel free to contact Rick Bowes.

Publishers will work with

Questions: In terms of model what about Bookshare.org? They have accommodate the need of publisher. From the Bookshare: we current have a grant to look at Adobe conversions to NIMAS.

DAISY publication to

What happens if you set up a specific format? If a student doesn’t want that format … could that move to an OCR suit? Publisher uses the source file…DAISY can be used as a source file or end user file.

Purchase books in audio format … anywhere … you are purchasing in an end-user format – trade publishers…they don’t talk with higher education publishers.

Chaffey Admendment…

The copyright issue regarding with the online textbook…there may not be any third party information so there is not a copyright issue. Access code needed…to obtain.

Supplemental and Auxiliary publications of textbook support…

I am currently involved with this clearinghouse concept…if people work together with realistic expectation

Faculty and Library … Faculty support textbook identification with enough lead time.

Digital reserves via the Library and Library holdings.

Private entities/commercial entities negotiations with publishers to provide total inclusion in text material…how can they do it – and we can’t?

Who are the players to get the work done and so everyone can have access to it?

• Software and functionality

• Content needs to be tagged so the functionality to pick it up

Groups need to get together that everyone can build on!

Large publishers view …

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