Reading Rights Coalition challenges pilot program at Texas A&M based on inaccessible Barnes & Noble NookStudy E-textbook Reading System

Posted Wed, 2011-02-23 21:10
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In November of 2010, Texas A&M University announced an agreement to implement the Barnes & Noble NookStudy e-textbook reading system on its campus.  See http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xanedu-barnes. NookStudy is downloadable software that reads NookStudy e-textbooks.  Despite it being labelled a pilot study to collect information about accessiblity, everything about it is inaccessible – the NookStudy website, the NookStudy software, and the e-textbooks themselves, which are based on XanEdu, the leading faculty-preferred provider of custom course materials and textbooks.

The following letter has been sent on behalf of Reading Rights Coalition members to the president of Texas A&M.