Publishers

Bookshare™ encourages publishers to become partners and participate in this important global initiative to make accessible content available for those with print disabilities.

Publishers can contribute to Bookshare by submitting their digital files to Bookshare and by granting worldwide rights whenever held. For textbook publishers with a legal obligation to provide accessible books, Bookshare offers a trusted and lower cost way to meet these accessibility requirements.

By submitting digital files, publishers can ensure that Bookshare Members have the highest quality reading experience – and by making their files available to Bookshare simultaneously with print publication, publishers ensure that Members have access to new titles at the same time as the general public. Partnering with Bookshare helps the organization additionally by dramatically reducing the hours of scanning and preparation required on the part of volunteers, parents, and school staff to provide accessible books to those with print disabilities.

New Publishing Partner Announcements

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Bookshare is delighted to announce these new publishing partnerships:

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • University of Chicago Press
  • University of California Press
  • New York University Press
  • Flat World Knowledge
  • Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Learn more about becoming a publishing partner.

Bookshare’s Publishing Partners

Bookshare has formal agreements with a wide range of publishers in trade, academic, and college and K-12 textbook publishing. These publishers include:

  • AMACOM Books
  • Art of Living Foundation
  • Baen Books
  • Barrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Brookings Institution Press
  • East West Books
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • F+W Media
  • Guideposts
  • Hachette Book Group
  • HarperCollins
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Katha
  • Library of America
  • Lockman Foundation
  • Modern Language Association
  • New World Library
  • New York University Press
  • Nokia
  • North Atlantic Books/Frog, Ltd.
  • O'Reilly Media
  • Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
  • Perseus Books Group
  • PhilosophersNotes
  • Random House
  • Scholastic
  • Seasons Publishing
  • Shared Books Ltd.
  • Sigel Press
  • Townsend Press
  • University of California Press
  • University of Chicago Press
  • United Methodist Publishing House

Bookshare is grateful to the National Federation of the Blind Newsline® System for making over 150 copyrighted newspapers and magazines available for download by Bookshare Members. These publications include:

  • The Christian Science Monitor
  • The Economist
  • The New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • USA Today

Publishers on Working with Bookshare

“At O'Reilly, we've made books available in readable formats to the blind on an ad-hoc basis for years, and we think it's absolutely terrific that Benetech® is taking a lot of the hassle out of this service - which all publishers and authors should support - by providing an infrastructure that helps the end users help themselves.

I'm quite happy with the level of security and authentication that Bookshare provides. I'm also delighted that they are getting out front on this issue.

Providing books online for a disadvantaged community for whom they are not now available takes nothing away from publishers or authors, but gives a great deal to a segment of society that is not now well served by publishers.”
- Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media

“Bookshare/Benetech is a great organization and a wonderful model for how to bring reading material to the disabled community without impairing the legal rights and commercial interests of copyright owners. Random House, Inc. is proud to partner with Bookshare by supplying them with ebook files that are used to convert our books into accessible content for print-disabled readers.”
- Matthew E. Martin
Vice President, Associate General Counsel
Random House, Inc.