March 01, 2002
For Those With a Disability, the Word Made Digital
For Those With a Disability, the Word Made Digital
A Napster-like file sharing site for electronic books has opened online, but it is unlikely to anger the publishing industry the way Napster did music companies. The site, Bookshare.org, already includes scanned copies of "A Beautiful Mind," the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and more than 7,500 other books. Volunteers are scanning hundreds more each month and adding them to the site's database. And it's all designed to be perfectly legal.
Posted by rshah at March 1, 2002 12:00 PM