Comments on: IDPF: Random House and Motricity reps win board seats, while accessibility boosters lose http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/idpf-election-results-random-house-and-motricity-reps-win-board-seats/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dear Author.Com | ContentLinkInc to Close Its E-Doors http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/idpf-election-results-random-house-and-motricity-reps-win-board-seats/comment-page-1/#comment-114459 Dear Author.Com | ContentLinkInc to Close Its E-Doors Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:20:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4947#comment-114459 [...] This is the store that you could buy all the Random House ebooks through. I do not believe it is the same company as Random House and Random House’s future books catalog shows 2007 ebooks. Additionally, Kelley Allen, Random House’s Director of New Media sits on the IDPF board. Hopefully, this is just an ecommerce situation and not a move away from epublishing by Random House. [...] [...] This is the store that you could buy all the Random House ebooks through. I do not believe it is the same company as Random House and Random House’s future books catalog shows 2007 ebooks. Additionally, Kelley Allen, Random House’s Director of New Media sits on the IDPF board. Hopefully, this is just an ecommerce situation and not a move away from epublishing by Random House. [...]

]]> By: Jon Noring http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/idpf-election-results-random-house-and-motricity-reps-win-board-seats/comment-page-1/#comment-59248 Jon Noring Wed, 31 May 2006 14:45:43 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4947#comment-59248 It is troubling to me that for the first time since OeBF/IDPF was organized in 1999/2000, there’s no one on the IDPF Board representing the accessibility community. And this comes at a time when accessibility is finally making headway with the upcoming <a href="http://nimas.cast.org/" rel="nofollow">NIMAS</a> standard for accessible educational textbooks, and as lawmakers around the world continue to enact more stringent accessibility legislation. Once the OpenReader Consortium gets incorporated (we hope real soon), we plan to allocate at least one Board seat for a representative from the accessibility community. That's how important we view accessibility. Likewise, I believe IDPF, if it is truly committed to accessibility, should change its By-Laws to require one Board Director to represent its recognized accessibility member organizations. It is troubling to me that for the first time since OeBF/IDPF was organized in 1999/2000, there’s no one on the IDPF Board representing the accessibility community. And this comes at a time when accessibility is finally making headway with the upcoming NIMAS standard for accessible educational textbooks, and as lawmakers around the world continue to enact more stringent accessibility legislation.

Once the OpenReader Consortium gets incorporated (we hope real soon), we plan to allocate at least one Board seat for a representative from the accessibility community. That’s how important we view accessibility. Likewise, I believe IDPF, if it is truly committed to accessibility, should change its By-Laws to require one Board Director to represent its recognized accessibility member organizations.

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