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7 eBooks for activists and donors: Ways to give back during Giving Season and beyond 

Candid

Here are seven titles from Candid’s free collection of eBooks and audiobooks that offer guidance on how to make a difference through volunteering, career choices, and intentional daily actions. The author of two previous books for activists about racism and its impact on our society. Looking to get involved with a nonprofit?

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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. We are using the modular approach of the DAISY Authoring and Interchange Framework, which defines modules and profiles for the representation of books, journals, etc.

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A Modest Complaint to Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Thanks to incredible work on the part of socially responsible publishers, our volunteers and the Bookshare team, we've been adding books at at incredible rate: more than 10,000 books in the last month. Bookshare is adding so much content that favourite authors of mine are creeping into the collection without my noticing.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). uses the term "Competent Authority" to describe these professionals). We run regular searches on the Web for Bookshare content -- much like publishers and authors do.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., copyright law.

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New E-Book: How To Raise More Money Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was sitting on the beach on vacation, Network for Good published a free eBook called How to Raise a Lot More Money Now – 50 Great Ideas from 11 top Experts. Organize a volunteer online thank you corps. But many nonprofits deep into planning for year end campaigns and perhaps looking for ways to raise money now.

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8 Books for Nonprofits To Read and Book Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Giving Back: Discover Your Values and Put Them Into Action Through Volunteering and Donating by Steven P. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How To Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki. In 2011 the publisher of one of Guy’s books Enchantment, could not fill an order for 500 ebook copies. Ketchpel, Ph.D.

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