Oh, I don't know, Gina. Maybe they could use a ten year old scanner, linux and sane and gocr, like I do. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georgina wrote: > Hi > > Please see my message on the cost of producing these books. To say that > someone with low income can recooperate some or all of their costs is got to > be missleading. > > As you already know my feelings on the cost of K1000 there's no need for me > to go into that but if someone can't afford a scanner and K1000 or even Open > Book Ruby, how are they going to recooperate some or all of the cost? > > Surely, corretcing is out of the question too? Firstly, they'd have to go > and buy the book and then be able to compare words and other symbols on the > screen with that on the printed pages of the book. > > Furthermore, that's if they can afford to use Windows to use the above ocr > packages. I understood that the image files were also required, thus only > Windows users might and I say might be the only ones to be able to submit > scanned material. What is the required format? > > It'll be very interesting to see how many people will be in a position to > submit material to the project. > > Gena > > > > >Actually, the cost is $50 per year. First year there is a $25 setup fee. > >But as stated, if you contribute by submitting books that you scan, > >correct errors and do what they call Publish to submit books already > >uploaded and/or do what is known as Basic Publish whereby you clean-up > >their database to reflect appropriate information about the entried > >therein, you earn fifty cents per title. To download and correct a book, > >you earn $2.50. Do ten of those per year, you earn half of your annual > >membership. > > > >So, there are ways that a person with limited income resources can benefit > >and still use the service. > > > >Amanda Lee > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- 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
