[Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast! Veteran's Day deal: Free Wall Chargers with Talking Mp3 Players!

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

The DAISY format in and of itself is not a protected format. If you do a book, according to the basic DAISY standard, it will not be protected and can be played by any DAISY capable player.  Copy protection can be added to the book, such as NLS and others do, but you don't have to do this.  

My agency, Minnesota State Services for the Blind, Communication Center, records books for our customers, and we do not add protection. We rely on the vetting of our customers as protection. Ultimately we will probably go the copy protection route, but haven't yet. 

In general, the DAISY format has been used by organizations serving disabled persons, but it is an open standard and anyone could implement it in a player or software program. It is, in fact similar to the ePUB standard which will probably ultimately replace it.

Dave



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-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-talk
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Hello,
If the player does not play nls or learning ally books, then what kinds of books does it play?
Maybe they meant it plays unprotected ebooks like those you'd download off a website such as Project Gutenberg.
Daisy is a format that is protected somehow and I thought could only be played on certain players, mainly those from blindness vendors.
Of course, not all daisy books are via nls or learning ally,  but for blind users, these are major sources of books.
And what sort of audio books will it play? I would imagine standard audio files like WMA, WAV or mp3 formats.
That excludes audible. This means that it might play commercial audiobooks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Danielle Ledet via Electronics-talk
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 2:07 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Cc: Danielle Ledet
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast! 
Veteran's Day deal: Free Wall Chargers with Talking Mp3 Players!

Chip you are correct. I know I think that way when I hear DAISY I think of NLS or Learning ALLy so thanks. Don't worry Liz.

On 11/20/15, Chip Orange via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Danielle,
>
> Yes, I believe Learning Ally books are also protected, so it cannot 
> play them either.
>
> As Tracy mentioned, Bookshare is the only source I can think of, for a 
> significant amount of unprotected DAISY format Ebooks.  Perhaps 
> Libravox or some such organization which promulgates "out of 
> copyright" material would also make DAISY books available.
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> Laz,  I wasn't accusing you of mis-representing anything at all; I 
> just felt that some of these points could be made more clearly, since 
> in many people's minds, DAISY and NLS are synonamous.  I'm sorry I did 
> it in some way which was upsetting to you.
>
> Chip
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> Chip Orange
> Florida Public Service Commission
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Danielle Ledet via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 12:41 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Cc: Danielle Ledet
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast!
> Veteran's Day deal: Free Wall Chargers with Talking Mp3 Players!
>
> Oh so does that mean it doesn't support Learning ally books either?
>
> On 11/12/15, Chip Orange via Electronics-talk 
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Even though the term "DAISY player" is used here, I believe it's 
>> helpful to clarify that to the best of my knowledge, this player 
>> cannot read the books from NLS.  Nor can it read the ones from 
>> Audible nor Learning Ally.
>>
>> Chip
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Laz via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:53 PM
>> To: electronics-talk
>> Cc: Laz
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast!
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