Hello, Marco and all.
This will undoubtedly sound odd, but I am more irritated and enraged
about the fact that the Kindle store isn't accessible than I was when, ten
years ago, we had such a small number of books available. Ten years ago, to
make a printed book accessible took time and effort. At the very least, it took
modifying the printer or author's electronic text to make it readable. More
usually, it required time and money to make talking books or braille. It wasn't
excusable that publishers refused to spend the time and money, but it was
understandable, no business wants to pay out for something which brings in no
return.
The situation is very different now. Books in Epub or Kindle format are
accessible by default. Rather than letting them remain accessible, publishers
spend their time and money putting their books into inaccessible formats, like
image-based PDF, or putting DRM on accessible formats and forcing them to be
read in inaccessible programs to supposedly protect them from copying. Having
done that, they don't bother making those supposedly protecting programs
usable.
Ten years ago, I couldn't properly read a book because I am blind and
can't hear well. That's a misfortune, but it's not anybody's fault. Now, I
can't properly read a book because the publisher and vendor think that the
illusion of security is more important than allowing their books to be read by
all. That is somebody's fault. It is far more of an outrage than the fact that
the publisher didn't take steps to make the book accessible, the publisher is
taking steps to make an accessible book inaccessible.
On another matter, you ask
The next thing for me
> would be to have an accessible library that has books you can borrow
> digitally for a month instead of paying $15 for each title.
I'm not sure where you are, but your local public library may allow
borrowing through overdive
http://www.overdrive.com
They offer a good many titles, in both Ebook and audio book format,
depending on the library. Their books are generally in Epub, at least outside
the United States. Their audio books are in windows media format, and can be
played on their own overdrive media console app on the iDevices. They do,
however, require that you break the DRM on the books to read them smoothly and
in iBooks/your Epub reader of choice. I believe the application that is used to
read them is somewhat usable on the iPhone. The audio books certainly work
well, I'm not sure, though, about the Ebooks. The application used to read them
on Windows is Adobe Digital Editions, which is supposed to support screen
readers but crashes allot when one is loaded.
I hope that's helpful.
Aman
> thousands of titles, we are still threating over not having access to a
> particular book store.
> As for me, I love IBooks as I have read lots of interesting Canadian titles
> that I have heard in radio interviews and not have had to wait 5 years for
> the CNIB talking book library to get around to recording the book. I admit
> though that it more titles would be a good thing, but as of this moment, I
> am so very happy to have access to books right away. The next thing for me
> would be to have an accessible library that has books you can borrow
> digitally for a month instead of paying $15 for each title.
>
> Marco
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Mary Otten
> Sent: December-08-12 8:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: kendal books with the apple store
>
> No, you can't get kindle books from the apple store. It is amazon's
> exclusive product. They have a lot that iBooks doesn't, which is why it is
> a
> shame that Kindle remains inaccessible.
> Mary Otten
> [email protected]
>
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