[gui-talk] any progress in NLS DTB limited access issues?

[David Andrews]

Some public domain books etc. will be free but you will have to 
purchase current books, as you do for the Kindle, audible.com etc.

Dave

At 09:20 PM 4/29/2010, you wrote:
>For what it's worht, there's also the Blio E-reader software coming in
>May, which will unlock access to 1,000,000 books, way more than
>Bookshare, Audible, NLS and RFBD combined! And, it's going to be free,
>at least for that first million books. Sounds pretty good to me.
>
>Wayne
>
>On 4/29/10, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > Hi Allen,
> >
> > At first I  was perplexed by your subject line. I  thought you were having
> > problems registering and/or downloading files from the NLS Bard site.
> >
> > But from your message, I  take it you're disconsolate, frustrated and angry
> > at what must be for you too limited a  number of titles at the 
> Bard site, at
> > least where your taste and your needs are concerned.
> >
> > I  myself have my complaints about THERE    being too few titles 
> of interest
> > to me on the Bard site, but between it and Audible, where I  enjoy a modest
> > subscription, not to mention the troves of online journalism I  consume
> > daily, I'm satisfied enough.
> >
> > I  know what Bookshare is, although I've never subscribed to it. 
> What manner
> > of titles do you find there in such profusion that, for you, 
> Bookshare  puts
> > the Bard site to shame, even to the point of arousing your 
> political fervor?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hoffman, Allen" <Allen.Hoffman at dhs.gov>
> > To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:33 PM
> > Subject: [gui-talk] any progress in NLS DTB limited access issues?
> >
> >
> > Anyone know if there is any movement to provide UAC for such products as
> > FS Reader for NLS digital talking books?  The concept that bookshare.org
> > can produce volumes of materials for various platform usage, with
> > adequate if not draconian IP protections, while the well funded NLS
> > chooses to keep things to non-mainstream platforms seems ridiculous.  If
> > this doesn't change soon I recommend folks start writing their
> > Congressman about finding new budget solutions to this problem.  It is
> > all well and good to have a benevolent NLS to provide leisure materials
> > for folks, but insisting we can't be trusted to keep our access terms is
> > just a poor way to serve the public as a government in my opinion.  I am
> > finding that I read far more from bookshare.org of late than NLS anyway,
> > so it may just become something irrelevant to me soon.  I just hate to
> > see tax dollars spent without a more direct connection between a
> > perceived problem and reality.  Same goes for the whole publishing
> > industry's perceived problem with copying of materials by people with
> > disabilities.  If your book was so good that it gets copied
> > electronically, you probably have buyers anyway.  Besides, if the
> > accessible version is not for sale, they were not missing any revenues,
> > and if someone is copying materials for sale then the publisher was
> > missing a market opportunity of their own.
> >
> > I personally think that NLS should have a audiobooks sales licensing
> > side for publishers to use as they see fit-e.g. NLS does the contract to
> > get the materials recorded, and if a publisher wants to sell this to the
> > general public, it should be allowed.  Gives publishers motivation to
> > make things easy to get NLS to record, and maybe there even is some
> > revenue sharing, beyond taxes, that could make the project more self
> > supportive.
> > Anyhow, just wondering if it's time to send Congressmen letters, or if
> > progress is being made to improve NLS services for the modern world.
> >
> >
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