No, no, no, no, Ann. Wrong reason. And, yes it does matter. It is a question of law. Here's the point. The reason the publishers are happy to go along with BookShare, and NLS, and RFB&D, is because these, and other agencies like them, take pains to restrict distribution to qualified recipients. The law has to do with providing access to published information for people who are blind. The general reading public is explicitly excluded. That's why you have to authenticate to BookShare, and why you log in with a password, and why you get content encrypted. Now, if some of us turn around and start offering rich xml files to anyone and everyone, we're going to be in serious trouble with this little apple cart. On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Steve, that would be too difficult to accomplish well. So they are > archiving the stuff in one place. > > Ann P. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
