A few points about the NLS system. First off it uses a very heavy encryption on the books as well as a some what unusual audio format. At this point in time the NLS has refused to permit the authorization of computer based playback of their books.
At the Association for the Blind of Western Australia we have been developing a digital talking book player software for the Mac as well as for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will be interesting to see the reaction of the NLS when we approach them about authorizing the mass- market iPhone as a device. That said we offer a library service, similar to the NLS one which is open to users worldwide and which offers DAISY books with no DRM. These titles include iPod playlist and can be used on an iPod or similar device as well as DAISY playback devices. Our collection is divided into two sections. A public section which can be used by anyone world wide and a copyright controlled section restricted to our library members. We are investigating how to offer access to the copyrighted works to the disabled world wide and I will post information of that here. You can take a look at our service at http://www.cucat.org/library/ request fro production take about 48 hours to complete. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) Email: gkear...@gmail.com On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: > > Hi guys, > Well it looks as if the NLS here in the U.S. is going to be rolling > out their long awaited digital talkingbooks and players in a few > months program wide. > > For a while there have been beta testers that have used assorted > aspects of the program's hardware and software. > > The digital talking books are going to be put on flash memory and > people who have the victor reader stream have been able to download > digital files of the books to play on their players for a while. You > have to register for the service and receive a special file that you > load onto the stream from what I understand and it pinpoints you as a > registered NLS user and allows you to use the download-able files. > > Well I am wondering if it would be possible for Apple to team up with > NLS like they've done with Audible and allow iTunes, future iPods and > or the iPhone to play the NLS DTBs? I am thinking it would be the > best thing in the world if I could put NLS books in iTunes and on my > iPod. This can be done but it is against the law and cumbersome and > time consuming. LOL and it would be just better in my way of thinking > if NLS DTBs would just go on the iPod all on their own without much > fuss or muss. > Do you all think this could be done and is it something anyone else > would like to see? > How would people e go about telling Apple to look into this or like I > said is it even possible? > > Best Wishes > Jenny Kennedy (Howard) > blueskyes9112...@gmail.com > Olathe, Kansas USA > > Join me on FaceBook: > Personal Profile - www.facebook.com/blueskyes > And feel free to join "The Blind Parents of FaceBook" group. Search > for it in groups or contact me for details. > > Follow me via twitter using the username: ben_folds_fan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
