Bookshare Partners with Shinano Kenshi Corporation

Bookshare, an online accessible library for individuals with disabilities, announced a partnership with Shinano Kenshi Corporation, a leader in advanced technology hardware and precision electronics.

This partnership will allow Bookshare members to easily download and read tens of thousands of accessible books, periodicals, best sellers, educational books, textbooks, general fiction, non-fiction, and literature on the new PLEXTALK pocket portable digital Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) player and recorder.

DAISY players, like the PLEXTALK Pocket, easily convert Bookshare's digital text files to speech allowing books and newspapers to be read aloud.

"The PLEXTALK Pocket offers a new choice in portable devices to our Bookshare members and introduces the latest digital book navigation," said Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, the nonprofit organization that operates Bookshare. "Our goal is to work with high-tech assistive technology vendors to increase the availability of accessible devices that our members can use to read Bookshare books."