A website for electronic books has opened online, but it is not going to anger the publishing
industry. The file sharing site, www.Bookshare.org, already includes electronic books of more than
7,500 books. Volunteers are scanning hundreds more each month and adding them to the web site's
database. Most important of all, it is designed to be perfectly legal. To download the electronic
books from the website, one must prove that he or she has a visual or reading disability. The
copyright law allows electronic copies of texts to be shared among people with visual diseases,
even if they have not purchased the books or had permission to receive the books in digital form.
Electronic texts are especially useful to the blind because programs that can read will read the texts
for those who cannot see. Before using the website, a person must mail or fax a disability form
signed by a qualified professional. The site also requires a sign-up fee of US $25 and an annual
subscription fee of US $50. The website is developed by Benetech, a nonprofit organization in
California, U.S.A., which uses technology to help the minorities worldwide.
【題組】22. How are the electronic books actually presented to their “readers”?
(A) They are presented as printed texts.
(B) They are shown line by line on the screen.
(C) They are in fact read by computer programs.
(D) They are printed in the reader’s native language.
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