[Arizona-students] Fw: Download the Free Blio e-Reader Today!

[Allison Hilliker (NFBA)]

What!  That's terrible!  I heard the accessible version of Blio demonstrated 
at Washington Seminar.  What happened to it since then?

Allison



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Fw: Download the Free Blio e-Reader Today!


Unfortunately the released version is not
accessible, a note on site says accessible version coming in October!

Dave

At 03:39 PM 9/28/2010, you wrote:
>Blio Launch Announcement FYI.  Read about an exciting new way to read books 
>in accessible formats! Allison Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:55 PM 
>Subject: Download the Free Blio e-Reader Today! 
>K-NFB Reading Technology, creator and developer of the BlioT e-reading 
>software, is pleased to annouunce the launch of Blio, the most advanced, 
>flexible, interactive and engaging e-reading application available to 
>consumers. With its ability to reproduce color, layout and original fonts 
>as in the print version of a book, Blio brings to life a large selection of 
>titles that are not available with e-ink devices. Categories such as 
>childrenâ?Ts books, cookbooks, and textbooks, finally have an e-reader that 
>can deliver the reading experience that was intended by the author. The 
>free application can be downloaded immediately to all Windows-based devices 
>at the newly             designed Blio.com. 
>â?oBeginning today, readers of all ages will be able to enjoy a digital 
>reading experience that truly harnesses the power of an e-reader,� said 
>Ray Kurzweil, inventor of the flatbed scanner and character- and 
>speech-recognition technologies, and founder of K-NFB Reading Technology. 
>â?oBy providing a full-color, flexible, and interactive experience, Blio 
>redefines the boundaries of the e-book, opening up entirely new categories 
>of multimedia content and, as a result, engaging new groups of readers of 
>e-books.�                        Try Blio - Download Here 
>Visit Blio website - Blio.com             Read the full press release - 
>K-NFB Blio Press Release Available today at Blio.com, through partnership 
>with Baker & Taylor, Blio offers a library of more than 1 million paid and 
>free titles featuring full-color, interactive media content and todayâ?Ts 
>bestsellers. Blio has a host of functions that make it smart, fun and easy 
>to use. Blio Feature Highlights: Blio mimics a bookâ?Ts printed format like 
>no other e-reader, with files presented in XPS format, which allows digital 
>books to stay true to their original print version. Blio also supports the 
>more limited ePub-formatted books. Blio features interactive rich-media, 
>video, slide-show, and audio enhanced content from more than 100 top 
>publishers, including Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, 
>Penguin Group, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. To facilitate reading and 
>learning, Blio provides unique synchronized highlighting of the words being 
>spoken. Blioâ?Ts full-media functionality allows users to insert notes into 
>digital pages, highlight sections and even look up references on websites, 
>without leaving their 
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