A: Elizabeth
Boepple, Presenter of the TAA-sponsored workshop on how to prepare
camera-ready copy:
"If anyone is
interested in copy-protecting CDs (including preventing downloading
to a hard drive or other removable media), I've learned it's easy,
and the software is free. The encoded CDs must be purchased from the software
distributor, but their cost is insignificant compared to the cost
of producing a print book. I also find their customer service and turn-around
time from order to delivery to be excellent. (In this day of tech
support in foreign countries spoken in barely intelligible folks of
questionable competence, these folks not only gave me unlimited pre-sales time
to describe the product, but talked me through my first time using
the software (no, I'm not being paid for the endorsement)."
A: Doug
Matthews, President, TeachingPoint:
"We have over
100 titles and we use Hexalock for our CD's."
A: Robert
Martinengo, co-founder of the Center for Accessible Publishing:
"The folks on
this list may be interested to know that thousands of electronic
files of textbooks are freely given by publishers to colleges without
any rights management. The catch is these files are only meant to
be used for students with 'print disabilities' (please
see my article).
In K-12, school
districts are writing purchasing contracts that require the publisher
to deposit electronic files in a repository, which can be accessed
by 'authorized agencies', which can then distribute the files without
permission or royalties, due to the Chafee copyright exemption (see http://nimas.cast.org/ ).
Perhaps authors
should get involved in these issues, for the sake of students
with disabilities, and their own control over their content."
