On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:40:40AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
I don't know anything other than what it says below. I looked at nbp.org and it doesn't say that PG texts are being used. It also doesn't give titles. I don't think there is a trademark violation since they are reformatting the files but it's interesting that they are producing their own DVD. I never personally had a problem with reading PG plain text books and I'm blind. I don't really see the point in the DVD, especially not for $39 US. They also have two CD sets, one for kids and one of British literature. I didn't look at them.
National Braille press http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/publications/index.html will carry Super Dvd #1, a dvd containing 3,626 books, 646 plays, 496 magazines and 2,753 stories. All this material is available in the public domain on the Internet, but Richard Seltzer http://www.samizdat.com/ has in many cases reformatted it for clear and simple text access. The dvd costs $39, and a listing of its contents is at http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/DVD1.html
Seltzer's site (www.samizdat.com) does make regular donations to PGLAF as a gesture of good will. They do some reformatting, and strip out the PG headers. I don't know anything about NBP, but as Tony mentioned am not sure what advantage for Braille readers come from reformatting. It might be that they're just ditching our old long header, which is hard to scan past quickly. -- Greg