[access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services
- From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:15:26 +0100
If only...I fear that in another five years we'll still be bemoaning the
fact that we can't access the books we want to read for education or
pleasure that everyone else can pop into Waterstones to pick up when they
are released...good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services
> Sunil,
>
> I'm with you there. I'm studying with the Open University and in
> fairness they are doing their level best to ensure everything is
> accessible. The trouble is that I'm just a single student out of thousands
> and thousands and the cost of readjusting each course I take in time for
> me to do it simply isn't feasible. This isn't an excuse, just a reality
> that I don't begrudge the university for. I'm lucky because I'm doing a
> comp sci degree, so much of what I need to know can be found on the 'Net.
> But as you say, it's the time involved in scanning or searching for
> alternatives that takes the time. If only those books were available "off
> the shelf" to us.
>
> Tink.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services
>
>
>> Really good luck with the uni studies I can empathise with that one. I
>> studied history and politics and because nothing relevant was available
>> in braille or on tape spent more time scanning rather than reading books.
>> Without the understanding and help of my tutors who lent me their own
>> books to scan so I didn't have to spend money buying books that everyone
>> else got out of the library and the library staff who let me take
>> not-for-loan reference books out of the library to scan I'd have got
>> absolutely nowhere. Obviously it wasn't ideal because my perspective was
>> shaped by what books I could lay my hands on and scan at short notice
>> rather than forming views and opinions based on reading and evaluating a
>> wider range of sources and publications. I graduated in '98 but I don't
>> think the situation has improved much.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:06 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ethics of book sharing services
>>
>>
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> The only ethic with regard to books is the ethic of less than 5% of
>>> all published books being converted to accessible formats.
>>>
>>> The ethics are not a matter of booksharing, as you pointed out
>>> everybody does it whether electronically or in print, but of basic human
>>> rights. It is not ethical that children fall behind in education because
>>> text books or set English books are not available in a timely manner, it
>>> isn't ethical that I've got to get my partner to read my university text
>>> books to me because they aren't accessible, it isn't ethical that I
>>> can't read my god-children the books they'd like at bedtime and it isn't
>>> ethical that people cannot just reach out and aquaint themselves with
>>> the subjects, topics, entertainments and treasures that the World's
>>> books hold, because publishers haven't enough business sense to realise
>>> they are missing out on an opportunity to make an awful lot more money.
>>>
>>> Ok, rant over. *Smile.
>>>
>>> Tink.
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