Re NLS, maybe we need to start a campaign to contact our congress men
and senators to get them to reconsider so there is Mac suitable SW
available. Vickie Weir
Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Thanks for the feedback Vickie. For better or worse it seems the
first Cocoa version will support text-only DAISY books. In your case
that sounds to be OK or preferable.
I want to be clear that the $120 price I mentioned was *not* for
katieplayer. That price is, in my humble view, much too much to pay
for a DAISY player. katieplayer will remain less than $20 for the
Basic version for the life of the product. You can quote me on that.
Further, if there are two versions coexisting for a bit - you'll only
need one license for a machine (a single $18, that is). The worries I
was referring to when on my diatribe regarding DRM were that low
priced options like katieplayer could be eliminated (for support of
certain content) if DRM is used by *content providers* in an unfair
or unwise fashion. Let's hope that doesn't happen.
We'd love to be able to support the NLS books when released.
Unfortunately, it seems - according to the NLS business plan - only a
single vendor has been tasked with developing the DRM, 1 hardware
device and one Windows-compatible software solution. Technologically
speaking, we could most certainly support the NLS books no matter
what media they happen to be delivered on - but they have to allow
developers access to their DRM scheme. Aye, there's the rub.
Joe
On Apr 8, 2006, at 11:48 PM, John Weir wrote:
re Cocoa version: text only rather than audio and text is
preferable because we will have a much broader source of books and
VO or DAISY can read it to us. I dont mind artificial speech.
As to "katieplayer were to support only Bookshare/DAISY 3 books and
DAISY 2 content which does not use "live" Digital Rights Management
(DRM)" Two versions, as long as they could coexist on the same
machine would be ok. Much more preferable than a $120 combined one.
The Future: not totally sure what you are asking but would love to
be able to read library of congress digital books when they come
out. I understand that they will record on a diffferent media, but
is there some way to get downloads direct to our computer and use
daisy rather than ordering and waiting for the snail mail process
used now? Vickie Weir
