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| Company Name: | AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND |
| Company Location(s): | New York, NY |
| Description: | AFB Press, the publishing arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is the leading publisher in the field of blindness and visual impairment. It produces books, journals, videos, and electronic materials, offering a wide range of information for students, professionals, researchers, and blind and visually impaired people and their families. Detailed information on AFB Press publications can be found in AFB's online bookstore. Online versions of many titles are available through AFB Press ePublications.
AFB Press provides more texts for college and university programs and more professional books on visual impairment than any other publisher in the field and is a catalyst in developing and encouraging new authors and scholarship. It is also the publisher of the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB), the premiere journal of record on blindness and visual impairment in the world, AccessWorld?, a cutting-edge online magazine on technology and visual impairment, and the AFB Directory of Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons in the United States and Canada, the primary information resource on services to persons with visual impairments. AFB Press is also widely recognized as the publisher of the award-winning Foundations series, the leading university textbooks on visual impairment used by special education programs both in the United States and abroad. |
| Type(s) of Publisher: | Educational Publishing Professional and Scholarly Publishing |
| Company Website: | www.afb.org |
| Email: | hr@afb.net |
| Phone: | 212-502-7600 |
