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Originally Posted by nekokami
Just a thought....
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I used to say that a lot, but then my brother got in the habit of responding "Just barely." I love my brother.
In this case, I think it's a great thought. It actually astounds me every time I brush up against the infrastructure that
already exists that could be used to support e-books, and makes me disgusted and frustrated that no one who
can wants to put the pieces together.
The pubs have everything they've printed in the last, what? 20 years? available electronically, so making e-books of that material is trivial, this vision impaired service likely has a fair catalog of previous material digitized and would probably share it back with the publishers, for a nominal fee/donation -- heck, they might could re-invent themselves as a service to do this sort of scanning for the pubs in the first place, since their specific niche/need would go away when e-books become widely available. Gutenberg is handily processing texts from the other end of history. And that doesn't even take Google's efforts into account!
I want to ask why this all has to be so difficult, but I know that it doesn't, certain folks who happen to be in critical positions just
want it to.
