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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Sept. 20, 2016 — Benetech, the leading nonprofit empowering communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions, today announced that over 10 million accessible ebooks have been downloaded through its Bookshare initiative.
The Chafee Amendment
Copyright Law of the United States and Related Laws
Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code Circular 92, as amended in 2004
§ 121. Limitations on exclusive rights: reproduction for blind or other people with disabilities 1
Bookshare is appreciative of the non-profit licenses provided by these organizations:
RTF2FO is a pure Java RTF to XML converter that converts RTF documents to XML ones or in pairs of XSL templates and XML files with textual data in line with the latest W3C specifications for XSL FO formatting semantics. We use RTF2FO as part of our conversion engine when handling RTF uploads from volunteers.
American Printing House for the Blind — a source for adapted educational and daily living products.
BookCourier from Springer Design, Inc. - a portable reading device designed specifically for people with vision and learning disabilities that make reading difficult.
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American Council of the Blind — a membership organization that strives to improve the well-being of all blind and visually impaired people.
All the details about proofreading from the old website can go here. Old content is here: https://www.bookshare.org/_/volunteer/Proofreading%202