<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Good Morning,</div><div>You can now read Talking Book Topics and the Brail Book Review on NEWSLINE. Read the press release below.<br>Cathy<br>Sent from my </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Subject:</b> <b>NFB-NEWSLINE® Adds Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chris Danielsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Director of Public Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National Federation of the Blind
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(410) 262-1281 (Cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:cdanielsen@nfb.org">cdanielsen@nfb.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> Adds
<i>Talking Book Topics</i> and <i>Braille Book Review</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Baltimore, Maryland (June 8, 2015):</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="http://www.nfb.org/">The National Federation of the Blind</a> is pleased to announce the addition of two new bimonthly publications to the NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> service:
<i>Talking Book Topics</i> and <i>Braille Book Review</i>. These are published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: “NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> and the National Library Service are invaluable resources to the blind community.
We are pleased with the success in 2010 of integrating NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> into the NLS Talking Book Players, and we are happy to further enhance integration with NLS services by sharing these two bimonthly publications with our subscribers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talking Book Topics</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> lists digital audiobooks and magazines available through the NLS network of
cooperating libraries. <i>Braille Book Review</i> lists Braille books and magazines available through the library network. Both publications also carry news of developments in library services. The annotated lists in each issue of these two bimonthly magazines
are limited to titles recently added to the national collection, which contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles, including bestsellers, classics, biographies, romance novels, mysteries, and how-to guides.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">These two publications are now available on NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup>. To read these lists of new titles added to the NLS collection, press 7 from the Main Menu, then choose
“Magazines,” then select the “Blindness Specific” category, and finally choose “Braille Book Review” or “Talking Book Topics.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Each book and its description are listed in these publications as a separate article. This means that subscribers can easily search and navigate through the articles to find
the books of interest. Additionally, subscribers can press Pound 9 from the touch-tone telephone and have the individual book listings sent to an email inbox. From there, subscribers can forward the email to a cooperating regional library to request the book.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scott White, director of NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup>, said: “We hope the addition of
<i>Talking Book Topics</i> and <i>Braille Book Review</i> will help our readers decide what books are of interest to them and make it easier to acquire them from their regional Braille and Talking Book libraries.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> is a free audible information service available to the blind and print-disabled that offers over four hundred publications including newspapers and
magazines, plus emergency weather alerts, job listings, and TV listings. The service is accessible via a touch-tone telephone, email, internet, portable players, or an iOS Mobile App. For more information or to register for NFB-NEWSLINE<sup>®</sup> visit
<a href="http://www.nfbnewsline.org/">http://www.nfbnewsline.org</a> or call 1-866-504-7300.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because
low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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