The other problem with nls is that they absolutely refuse to allow folks to develop software players for their digital content. I asked at the acb convention a couple years ago, and was told flatly that there would be no allowance for software players, because they'd already selected their vendors, and they weren't allowing any more. Of course, all this does is make me mad enough to find one of their silly players (when they're released to the general public, and break their stupid proprietary format. If I can't play the thing on my computer, and do it easily and accessibly, then I simply won't use the service. Of course, this ddoesn't bother them in the least, they just don't care, but perhaps if they received hundreds or thousands of complaints, perhaps they'd allow somebody to do something about it, though I'd certainly not hold my breathh.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
I admit, NLS does bother me for that exact same reason. Why should we need a special player? I've heard the argument that it's no different from doing something like the Amazon Kindle, but that argument falls flat on one simple premice: you're not forced to use the Kindle if you don't want to. We are forced to buy another player, and I guess something in me rebels at that idea. Maybe I'm just an oddball, in fact I know I'm an oddball :), but I can't help but think that I have a laptop, as well as an iPod that does everything I need or want. The only thing it doesn't do is play NLS books, and I guess NLS just isn't important enough to me for me to want yet another device, especially if it's almost double the cost of something I already have and would serve me no other purpose.On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:28, Cheryl Homiak wrote:NLS doesn't bother me because they aren't making their downloads accessible to only one OS. You have to have a special player, ridiculous or not, no matter what OS you are using, and it's possible to download your books and load them onto your player using any of the Oses.-- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.--Douglas AdamsClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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