Hi Gordon,
That makes a lot of sense to me, and our intent - especially after
reading the feedback kindly offered by the listers - is to continue
to actively support the DAISY 2 text + audio books. For the
transition to the Cocoa version of katieplayer (already well
underway) we will probably, as I've suggested, have to phase support
for the various DAISY flavors in - and there may be two versions of
katieplayer coexisting for a few months - but the end goal is to
combine support for all in a single application.
Thanks Gordon for taking the time to post feedback and good luck with
the DAISY publishing project!
Joe
On Apr 9, 2006, at 2:17 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi Joe. If I may, I think personally that moving to text-only
content would be a mistake. I realise it's difficult for non-U.S.
residents to keep in mind, but services such as bookshare are not
available to all everywhere. Also, some organisations/libraries
such as, for instance, the RNIB over here in the UK do, as I
understand it, distribute a lot of content containing the human
reader, i.e., natural audio. Were you to move away from supporting
this kind of content, you would preclude those users wishing to
play this material. I'm actually looking at doing some Daisy
publishing shortly. I own one of the software publishing tools for
the PC, and it's an ongoing project.
