Jim Fruchterman

Non-profit reading technology. Fruchterman, an engineer who co-founded the OCR firm Calera, set up Arkenstone in 1989 as a non-profit to sell affordable reading machines for blind people, then Benetech, whose Bookshare service, launched in 2002, gives print-disabled readers a large online library of accessible books under copyright exemptions. His model was building for social benefit where the market alone would not pay.