Bookshare Organizational Memberships

BookShare Organizational Memberships

Organizations that serve adults and students with print disabilities may register for organizational memberships.

Organizations that might want to register for membership include: schools at all levels, libraries, rehabilitation agencies, resource centers, retirement communities and group homes both inside and outside the U.S.

With this type of membership, teachers and/or staff members (Sponsors) download books for their students and/or clients (Members). These organizations provide Bookshare with:

 Roster of Sponsors: teachers and/or staff members who will download the books

 Roster of Members: students and/or clients with qualifying print disabilities who will read the books

Organizations can also recommend that their Members sign up for individual memberships so they can download books on their own.

Organizational Memberships Options

Membership Type Cost

All international Generally same as U.S. organizations, but some countries (e.g. India) have lower organizations fees. Visit the International page for more information.

Available Books

Bookshare offers over 5000 books available to Members worldwide. Just select Advanced Search, enter your search criteria and select “Books Available Worldwide” from the Books to Search drop down menu.

Here is a sample of the titles available:

Published by HarperCollins

1. Elephants Can Remember, by Agatha Christie

2. The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Volume I), by Meg Cabot

3. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough

4. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

5. Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian 6. Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band that Shook Youth, Gender and the World, by Stephen D. Stark

Published by Scholastic

1. Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club #1), by Ann M.Martin

2. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps Series), by R. L. Stine

3. The Magic School Bus: Lost In the Solar System, by Joanna Cole

4. The Hitchhiker, by R. L. Stine

5. Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Published by Baen Books

1. Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold

2. 1634: The Galileo Affair, by Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis

3. We Few, by David Weber, John Ringo

4. Warlord, by David Drake, S. M. Stirling

5. More Than Honor, by David Weber

Published by O'Reilly Media

1. Windows XP In A Nutshell, by Tim O'Reilly, David A. Karp, Troy Mott

2. Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition, by David Pogue

3. Java Cryptography, by Jonathan Knudsen

4. iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition, by J. D. Biersdorfer

5. eBay: The Missing Manual, by Nancy Conner

Various Spanish Language Publishers via Bookshare’s Argentinean Partner Tiflolibros

1. El Obsceno Pájaro De La Noche, by José Donoso

2. La Ciudad De Las Bestias, by Isabel Allende

3. Contra Bush, by Carlos Fuentes

4. La Ciudad y Los Perros, by Mario Vargas Llosa

5. Yo, El Supremo, by Augusto Roa Bastos