Palo Alto, CA (openPR) 4 October 2010

Book Share ® (http://www.bookshare.org), a leading global provider of copyright, the digital books accessible to the disabled printing, today announced that 100,000 students will now Facebook Share? Collection of digital books. Bookshare hit this goal, a goal of five years provided under the organizationâ? Award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, in less than three years, which is the enormous demand for materials in flexible formats for students with disabilities are a number of printing skills.

than half a million booksâ? especially textbooks and teaching materials as well as reading pleasure? have been downloaded from Facebook Share of students and teachers. With half of the year 2010 alone, downloaded downloaded to grow the number of books quickly by the huge growth in student numbers.

â? Facebook Share? s capacity to 100,000 students with disabilities have access print offer over half a million pounds, is commendable. Reach its goal two years ahead deserves all the praise, â? said Alexa Posny, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitation, U.S. Department of Education.


Many students with disabilities can

pressure fight for academic success, but the use of digital web books from Bookshare make a difference. Students with disabilities will print their books on the first day of the semester, like all other students and keep them with their homework from the first day.

â? One of the biggest advantages of the Library Book Share equal access for students. The large collection of digital books available allows students to follow their colleagues, read books, participate in discussions to achieve more success in school and study on time with their class A? ? said Stephanie Caceres, specialist / special education teacher in Worcester County, Maryland. â? In fact, one of my students, â? Bookshare has changed my life. It opens up a whole new world to me.â? As a teacher, these are the moments that remind us of why I do what I do ????

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largest library of its kind in the United States adds Bookshare thousands of new eBooks per month in schools, universities, the NIMAC (National Teaching Materials Access Center), editors and volunteers. The collection is now recommended at the head of more than 90,000 books, including textbooks, literature Bookshare, reading teacher, best-selling New York Times, and books-members.

â? While we recognize their remarkable achievements, we also know that we still have many more students on a range? Betsy said Beaumon, vice president and general literacy programs for Benetech, a nonprofit organization that operates Bookshare. ? A print disabled students should have access to books and printed materials that they need to have to get an education, but remains more than a million students will benefit not from Bookshare. Our goal is to serve in the episode all qualified students in the U.S.?

known by a derogation of the copyright in the United States (17 USC § 121) as the Chafee amendment, Bookshare serves a community of people qualified handicapped pressure, such as visual impairments, physical disabilities or severe learning disabilities that affect reading. Proof of disability is required for membership. To access the collection, qualified people of all ages are invited to register for individual membership, organizations are qualified persons are invited to join a member of the organization.


About

Bookshare

Book Share is the world? largest online library of protected content on the Internet for people with disabilities pressure. Through his initiatives and technology partnerships studied Bookshare on the floor to questions of access, so that people do not have the same ease of access, to read printed as people without disabilities. In 2007, Bookshare received a five-year award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of free access for all U.S. students with print disabilities are qualified. Bookshare library now has over 90,000 books and serves more than 100,000 members. Book Share is an initiative of Benetech, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based nonprofit that provides sustainable technologies to address pressing social needs.

The contents of this press release was part of a cooperation agreement, H327K070001 with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs prepared. However, these contents do not necessarily reflect the policies of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.


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Benetech. All rights reserved. Benetech Bookshare is an initiative

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