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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

Paul Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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If you are reading this monograph then you are engaging in an activity denied to hundreds of millions of print disabled people across the globe. For most of human history reading equality has been an unrealised and impossible dream for people who are unable to read and handle standard books, including people with blindness, quadriplegia or dyslexia. Technological advancements have revolutionised what is possible. While books have been born digital for decades, almost exclusively they have been published in standard paper formats. Books are now born digital and are being distributed as E-Books, via E-Libraries and read on E-Readers. There is now no reason that people with print disabilities cannot enjoy full access. People with print disabilities can use adaptive technologies to read digital content, unless that content is published in ways that blocks the use of adaptive technologies.
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Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
, pp. 1 - 7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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  • Introduction
  • Paul Harpur, University of Queensland
  • Book: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
  • Online publication: 01 June 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316340516.002
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  • Introduction
  • Paul Harpur, University of Queensland
  • Book: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
  • Online publication: 01 June 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316340516.002
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  • Introduction
  • Paul Harpur, University of Queensland
  • Book: Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
  • Online publication: 01 June 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316340516.002
Available formats
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