Cambridge University Press (CUP) has entered into a license agreement with Bookshare, a nonprofit organisation that provides books in accessible formats for people with qualified print disabilities such as blindness or low vision, a physical disability or a severe learning disability that affects reading. Under the terms of the digital rights license agreement, CUP will deliver academic and scholarly books from all of its regional publishing centers around the world to Bookshare for conversion into accessible formats.
Individuals with qualified print disabilities will now be able to download the books for a nominal Bookshare membership fee and read them using a computer or other assistive technology, with voice generated by text-to-speech technology, as well as options for digital Braille. Qualified students in the US will have free access to the books as a special award from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Bookshare operates in the US under an exception to copyright law known as the Chafee Amendment and is expanding internationally. In addition to worldwide availability of titles, this agreement supports Bookshare operations because digital files in EPUB format from publishers ease the challenge of creating digital accessible books.
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