[access-uk] Re: New Harry Potter book
- From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:57:57 +0100
The audio is already available for pre-order. Although the release
date is a month after the print release date, it's considerably quicker than
last time around.
For those who are interested, www.play.com have it for £45, as
opposed to the rrp, £65.
Tink.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James O'Dell
Sent: 05 July 2005 14:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Harry Potter book
Hi Andrew
I don't think they would have been very happy to provide a text copy as it's
inevitable that some visually impaired person would distribute it
eventually, however much they tried to secure it. The logical thing to have
done would have been to generate a Daisy audio book using synthetic speech
and the text version they already have, and sell that. That way illegal
distribution would be more difficult than with a text version, and the
prospect of listening to the book being read by a synthesiser wouldn't
appeal to much of the sighted audience. It would also save them some cash
on braille distribution, not to mention trees, as I'd certainly go for the
electronic version if it were available. I'm also a bit confused as to why
the publishers won't allow the books to be published on audible.com, since
the number of copies they could sell from there is only limited by
bandwidth, and everyone would want Harry Potter on their I-pods. But this
is certainly an excellent start for those who read braille/large print,
hopefully the use of the Daisy format will make the production of audio
books from electronic text easier, if people can stand the synthesisers. I
would expect In Touch to be on to this one either this week or next, so
maybe we'll hear more about how we've finally arrived at this point then.
James
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