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Can a school provide etexts obtained from publishers to Bookshare?

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Can a school provide etexts obtained from publishers to Bookshare?

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No, schools cannot provide etexts obtained from publishers to Bookshare, unless the school explicitly obtains permission from the publisher allowing the school to share the books with Bookshare. Bookshare operates under an exemption from copyright law that allows distribution of scanned books created from printed books (the Chafee Amendment) to individuals with print disabilities. However, Bookshare does not want to encourage others to breach other agreements that they have made. For example, almost all electronic books come with license agreements that restrict the user from providing the electronic books to anybody else. Bookshare does not want to receive any books where the provider of the books would be violating some other agreement. Because of this, Bookshare does not accept commercial ebooks as submissions, except directly from the publisher with the publisher’s agreement. In addition, some state laws require publishers to provide schools with electronic text of textbooks (i.e.

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