[Nfbmo] Fw: [MediaReq] FW: Blio E-Book store to launche on Sep 28th
DanFlasar at aol.com
DanFlasar at aol.com
Thu Sep 16 15:59:33 UTC 2010
Fred,
Thanks for forwarding this post!
I attended a demo of Blio at the National Convention and was *very*
impressed with it. It's intended for
all users, sighted, VI or blind thus eliminating the segregation of the
reading public. To sighted readers it
offers a full true-scanned image of the original book including all
illustrations and text, the ability to change
the presentation of the book (double-page, single page or maginification)
as well as for some books the
ability to highlight the word, line or sentence being read aloud by Blio's
native text-to-speech engine (a very
academic almost-British voice). It can also work with screen readers if
you prefer a different speech engine -
I'm not sure if the highlighting ability is maintained. Blio offers
bookmarking and I think I recall that it offers
the ability to enter notes associated with bookmarks. It is also intended
to be device-independent - it will be
available on any current computing platform and operating system, pad (like
the iPad and others coming out)
and smart phones.
I was really impressed with what I saw at the demo. It was noted
that Blio will have an integrated link
to a book distributing firm which willl allow Blio users to purchase Blio
formatted ebooks at a competitive
price to other platforms like the inaccessible Kindle and Nook. As it was
explained, since all currently pub-
lished books are already in a digital format to prepare them for printing,
a Blio program reads books from proprietary publishing digital formats and
translate them into the Blio format, speeding up the
process of making books available. If this sounds cumbersome, it's not
-the same thing has to be done
to ready books for printing by a given printing house.
I'm really excited about this and will be downloading Blio next week!
Dan
In a message dated 9/16/2010 6:20:09 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
goodfolks at charter.net writes:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Baracco" <wq6r at socal.rr.com>
To: <mediareq at lists.the-jdh.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:55 PM
Subject: [MediaReq] FW: Blio E-Book store to launche on Sep 28th
> FYI!
>
> "[Blio], will be available for download starting on September
> 28 directly from Blio's website. Sure, Blio's no Amazon or
> Barnes & Noble, but they're promising a million free titles at
> launch and they've partnered with Baker & Taylor to provide
> another 10,000. We're also intrigued by the software's
> advanced text-to-speech capabilities
> -- hey, don't forget Ray Kurzweil is the founder! Not too far
> after the launch of the PC software, Blio will be releasing
> Android, iPhone and iPad apps."
>
> Source, Engadget:
> http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/15/blio-for-pc-will-be-availabl
> e-on-september-28-ios-and-android-a/
>
>
>
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