[access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services
- From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:03:20 +0100
Andrew ... if the publishers can't be bothered to make commercial versions
of the books available to us in accessible formats, then they're not going
to get any profit from us. It's their own fault. They'd rather characterise
us as a problem than come up with an accessible solution it seems.
I'd dearly love to be able to buy books from my favourite authors and have
them benefit as a result of my purchase ... and hence encourage them to
write more books.
Until businesses stop seeing disabled peple as a problem and start seeing us
as a market, and as important, then the ethics of what we're doing to gain
access to books is something of a side issue. We can only conclude they are
happy with the status quo and are perfectly happy to tolerate what we're
doing and they'd rather not have our money.
I find it bizarre.
...Damon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:53 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Ethics of book sharing services
Hi all,
Ok, recent discussion has prompted me to post these questions which I
wouldn't have necessairly posted, but had thought about when hearing of
Bookshare et al.
With Bookshare, you pay a flat fee each year to subscribe to the
service, which according to interviews with representatives from
Bookshare etc, they describe it as like a Napster service, but the books
are all on the Bookshare servers.
However, with this set-up, does the original author of the
book/publisher etc get anything back? How do the publishers let these
books go onto the site, being that they may not see any of the money?
Furthermore, baring in mind book sales etc, when we download a book from
Bookshare or another similar service, this does not go to the tally of
the author, and so the books we read aren't added to the sales figures.
Yes, this last bit is a bit weak, because sighted people pass books
around etc. However, I am just wondering what actually happens?
Discuss.
Andrew.
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