[DTB-Talk] genuine question about recently added section

Sun Mar 28 14:05:03 UTC 2021

I hope you're correct on one of these theories, and that they are not going to just stop producing digital English content. I don't think they will, I mean, stop producing English content. It just really kind of made me wonder when I saw how much Spanish content lately has been floating around. no hard feelings, I just wanted to bring awareness to this fat. I have no desire to go down a huge rabbit trail with this.

> On Mar 28, 2021, at 10:01, Greg Kearney via DTB-Talk <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> There could be any number of explanations for this. 
> 
> 1. The first priority for conversation of tape to digital was give to English language works and they are now to the point of turning to Spanish titles. 
> 
> 2. They have located a conversion/producer  contractor able to process Spanish language books to the NLS standards, which are very high.
> 
> 3. They have come into possession of a large collection of Spanish language books produced by either a Latin American library source or from a commercial producer with such titles. 
> 
> Greg Kearney 
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>> On Mar 28, 2021, at 5:41 AM, SSEric via DTB-Talk <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I think I have noticed over the past couple of years, without doing any counting to verify one way or the other, but it sure seems there are a lot more female authors added over the past couple of years. Maybe they are just making up for some overlooked works in the past, or maybe I am just wrong.
>> 
>> Is this where we get to add to our wish list? Please, do not put the book category on separate lines. It is just more action required, either to swipe the screen or tab on a keyboard. Maybe they could just put them all on one line separated by semicolons…
>> 
>> Eric
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>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Milton via DTB-Talk <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Yes, I, too, have noticed this with BARD Talkingbooks.
>> 
>> I suggest that we write to Judith Dixon at jdix at loc.gov and ask for an
>> explanation of why so many Spanish book and I have even noticed some French
>> language books being placed there on the new books. The first one to get an
>> answer should post the response to this list.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DTB-Talk <dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Cheryl Osborn via
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>> Cc: Cheryl Osborn <chapalacheryl at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [DTB-Talk] genuine question about recently added section
>> 
>> Yes, I have noticed this also. It would be nice if there were an English or
>> Spanish option so that we don't have to fish through all titles to find
>> English that we want or Spanish that we would want
>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 6:29 AM Chris Gilland via DTB-Talk <
>>> dtb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> I have a question regarding the recently added section of Bard as it 
>>> applies to audiobook submissions.
>>> 
>>> as of the last few months, I have noticed that even though there have 
>>> been a few titles added which are in English, most things lately I see 
>>> getting added are in Spanish. The ratio just doesn't seem to make sense.
>>> 
>>> I understand that there may be a lot of Spanish titles to be added, 
>>> but it just seems to me really weird that for all the Spanish spoken 
>>> titles, I hardly see anything getting added that is English spoken. 
>>> Again, just to be very clear, I'm not saying that I see nothing 
>>> getting added, I do, just not very much anything. The ratio just seems 
>>> way off. It kind of makes me a little bit curious.
>>> 
>>> has anyone else noticed this, but not been bold enough to say anything 
>>> up until now?
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