Harry Potter by JK Rowling in Braille, Large and Standard Print Together
July 5th, 2005 | Filed under Miscellaneous.‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ by JK Rowling will be the first ever novel in the UK to be published simultaneously in braille, large-print and standard print.
Some snippets of the announcement by the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) says
“The braille version will be published by RNIB on 16 July 2005 alongside the other versions. This will enable thousands of blind and partially sighted children and adults to read the same book at the same time as their sighted peers. Prior to this, blind book fans have had to wait months or even years for the latest book to be ‘translated’ into braille.”
“John Godber, RNIB’s Head of Products and Publications, said: “The right to read is often denied to people just because they’re blind. More than 95 per cent of books are never published in a format that blind or partially sighted people can read such as braille, large print, or audio. This is partly due to technology and most publishers not realising that blind and partially sighted people want to read books just the same as everybody else. Publishers as well as the government share a responsibility to make that happen. RNIB, as part of the Right to Read Alliance, has worked closely with JK Rowling and Bloomsbury, the publishers of Harry Potter, to make this latest instalment available to blind readers.”
Harry Potter fans will surely thank Royal National Institute of the Blind for making this latest book available. Hopefully more publishers will follow to bring a smile on such faces!
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