Exploring Accessible Publishing for the Print Disabled | Publishing Perspectives

Bookshare, a non-profit wing of the larger philanthropic agency Benetech, is a member-based organization that provides content to those with an inability or difficulty to read print (known as print disability) in the form of DAISY book digital files (Digital Accessible Information System). Of their 250,000 members, approximately 240,000 of them are students who don't pay for their memberships, largely thanks to a 5-year federal grant from OSEP (the Office of Special Education Programs). While this helps to push content into the scholastic population by offering free memberships, acquiring said content is a trickier and evolving issue.