"yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ethics of book >sharing services
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The American edition (audio) was >available at exactly the same time as the > print because (and I am guessing here) >the ADA insists on it. Also it was possible to download the Order of the >Phoenix from bookshare within hours of the publication. Why have we not got a >similar thing to bookshare in this country? Or even better why doesn't >the UN do something useful for once >and get an international agreement >exepting print handycapped people >from copyright laws all over the world so that where ever a person lives they can access things like bookshare?
I get very passionate about this subject because the right to read is a fundamental human right in my opinion. Reading is so much a part of developing the mind and the soul and we're being denied that right.
Justin
Ok I'll get off my soap box and go back to spell checking my work instead.(smile)
Yusuf
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