[nabs-l] problems with Blio

[David Andrews]

Some authors believe that the text to speech rendering of a book, is 
another version, and that they should be paid extra for making it 
available.  Hence, if they don't get paid more, they disable that version.


Dave

At 05:00 PM 5/8/2012, you wrote:
>I know, I just don't see why they would choose to disable it. Maybe 
>it costs more or something.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On May 8, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Jorge Paez <jorge.paez1994 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.
> > I saw some books on the site version that do say they have 
> "text-to-speech enabled" so it should've been there somewhere.
> > As far as why it would've been disabled,
> > I think its because that's a decision authors/publishers make, 
> and I think, legally, the company, in this case KNFB can't force 
> them to do that.
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 8, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Sophie Trist wrote:
> >
> >> Hi y'all,
> >>
> >> Recently, I got the Blio app, which is an acessible Ebook reader 
> for the iPhone. Yeserday, I bought a book from the Blio store and 
> attempted to rea it only to find that the text-to-speech feature 
> was not enabled. I doubt there is any way to manually enable this 
> feature, but if there is, would you please let me know? What 
> troubled me about this was that nowhere in the product details did 
> it tell me whether text-to-speech was enabled or not. And just out 
> of curiosity, why would text-to-speech not be enabled on a website 
> specifically designed for blind users?
> >> Yours,
> >> Sophie Trist