Users with disability of India will be able to use the portal of accessible books "bookshare.org" for 7 euros the year.

The portal of Internet North American Bookshare.org, who allows users blind and with disability to unload books in accessible formats, it has signed an agreement in India so that persons of this country can access to their publications, as the newspaper "Indian" briefs "Express".

For this, it will cooperate with the organization that the system manages in that country Daisy (Digitally Accessible Information System), to offer the books that can unload through their web page in this formed of audio of easy accessible navigation for readers blind.

In this way, the blind readers will be able to obtain the disposable works in the portal "Bookshare.org" directly in format Daisy, since the Indian laws of author's copyright do not allow the persons blind, and with other disabilities that hamper the reading, be able to scan books printed in accessible formats for personal use to convert them, how already it can be made in great delivery of the world.

The organization for the help to blind persons of Bombay Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged, will be in charge of verifying the disability of the users who want to register themselves in Bookshare.org and managing the process of registry.

The initiative will allow users registered from India to access to 6.000 titles in English for an annual price of 7 euros.

Servimedia (25/10/2008)
Source: Service of information about disabled SID