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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On Monday morning, the 2004 National Book Award winners in fiction and nonfiction were made live on our Bookshare.org site, providing rapid access to these books to readers with disabilities. Announced in the middle of last week, these two new books are two outstanding accounts of remarkably different histories.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

national experience. The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. copyright law.

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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

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Charles got interested in this type of charitable work while he served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay in the early 1990s. This project is being spearheaded by Bud Riser of the National Cristina Foundation. Meanwhile, these computers and devices are being discarded by the millions in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.