[Dtb-talk] iPhone/iPad/iPod touch NLS Playback question

[Jim Barbour]

My guess is that there would be enthusiastic interest from patrons.

Since there are several players for NLS digital books, I'm assuming
there is a process for getting devices approved by NLS.  I'm not sure
if this process anticipated mainstream devices like the iPhone.

I do know that this process has, so far anyway, specifically placed
personal computers ouside consideration.

I'd suggest reaching out to the viphone at googlegroups.com (list of
blind iphone users) to find out about patron interest.

I'm looking forward to this myself, it would be pretty cool.

Jim

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:33:43AM +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:
> Association for the Blind of Western Australia and Curtin University has developed a DAISY Playback software, DAISY Bookworm, which we expect to release June 1. The cost will be about $5.00.
> 
> This software was developed to play our books and those of Vision Australia and other libraries using non encrypted books. Now that we have this we would like to ask if there any interest in the U.S. in such devices playing NLS books? If so we would need to investigate how to get the devices approved with our software.
> 
> So I figured I would ask first and see if there is enough interest before putting a great deal of programming time into it.
> 
> 
> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
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