Harry,
That only pertains to cassetts.
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you mean cassettes right?
On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
Hi David and all,
Yep, that's a fact, I just heard through something I read, (I wish I could give yall the title of it, but it was either in the braille forum, or, in our local library newsletter, but yes, NLS has stopped producing books as of October, 2010.
Harry
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From: David hilbert Poehlman
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:00 PM
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bard is doing both at the same time. they are converting and publishing directly to digital audio. I am not certain, but think they've stopped production on cassette except perhaps for magazines.
On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Ana G wrote:
I respect the work of the NLS library, but I'm a little baffled about why they rerecord books that are already in audio. I'm guessing they don't have access to the performance copyright or something like that, but it often takes such a long time for NLS versions to go up on BARD anyway that it seems smarter for them to have one of their narrators read something else while the commercial audio book publisher decides enough copies have sold to let NLS use this or that recording.
I really like Audible.com because for less than $25 a month, I can buy any two books I want, which is about what I spend when I buy a couple of books at Barnes and Noble or Borders.
I do wish, however, that publishers made books available to us as electronic files. I wouldn't mind paying for them, and I wouldn't even mind having to submit some sort of proof of disability to buy them in that format. I just don't think that keeping books as print-only artifacts protects authors. I know too many teachers, writers, and graduate students who photocopy whole books because they're out of print, very expensive, or just not in the budget, and I know lots of people who buy and read books, then pass them on to friends, who pass them on or leave them in the break room for someone else to pick up, and so on. When things like that happen, I think of all the hours I spend scanning and cleaning up a text, and I get frustrated all over again.
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