Hi Steve, Bookshare is proprietary enough to assure the copyrights of publishers. There are now tools for Linux to unpack the books. No, those tools are not open source, but the binaries are available free of charge. There is a cost for the service because there are costs incurred by Benetech to run the service. :-) Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! A+, CCNA, Network+! Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i My deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the astronauts lost in the 2/1/03 space shuttle explosion! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Bookshare & O'reilly books make an aggreement > This sounds exciting in a way because I dumpped the safari service I > used to have last year when they went with that goddamn java crap and > I told them why I was dropping out. > > The problem here though, Isn't bookshare proprietary? and aren't they > windows-only? if yes to the above questions, then it's just another > thing that forces a blind person to buy in to over $800 worth of > software and maybe even buy winblows just so he/she could use this service. > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
