David, as I understand it since the Talking Book Library became free, if you
have a membership of the Overdrive option, you also have membership of the
CD/USB options as well. I seem to remember this was said on an in touch
broadcast either earlier this year or last year when the issue of Overdrive
members not having access to some Talking Books was discussed.
I think your right about the 4,000 books from Audible, I think they could only
allow access for their own copyrighted titles. I probably won't be giving up my
Audible subscription any time soon.
The announcement included a figure of 25,000 titles in the Talking Book
Library, if I remember correctly.
Yusuf
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David Griffith
Sent: 20 August 2016 21:07
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB and Audible partnership
Very interesting and certainly sounds good news but in the intro bit it
raises a lot of unanswered questions/ clarifications needed. I did not
listen through the sample from the Militarist Audio Book to its
conclusion so these questions/clarifications may have been addressed
later. But assuming they were not.
1. It only mentions eligibility for those using the USB/Daisy Disk
service - what about those who have switched to the Download Service?
Are we excluded?
2. It seems to suggest though does not make clear that actually only a
tiny sub-set of books on Audible will be available to the RNIB . That is
the 4,000 books for which Audible directly hold the copyright. Audible
is massively bigger than this though. Presumably this means that only 1
in 50 of the over 200,000+ books available (according to Google when I
checked just now will actually be available to RNIB members.
3. What people should definately not be doing then is cancelling their
Audible membership in the belief that they will get anything like the
selection of books they currently enjoy.
4. If I am correct in all this I think it is possibly misleading not to
include this clarification at the stage of the announcement, certainly
my first thought was should I now cancel my Audible Membership?
This is not to downplay what is an important marginal development. An
increase of 4,000 books is certainly an uplift on the current 10,000
books that the RNIB hold.
If as a Download Talking Book User I can access these titles I will
certainly appreciate not having to expend my Audible Credits on them.
Still I think the announcement should be clearer to prevent people
taking premature stpes regarding cancelling Audible membership that they
may later regret.
David Griffith
ON 20/08/2016 17:45, Michael Allan wrote:
Here is a link to the announcement concerning this.
https://audioboom.com/boos/4951397-audible-team-up-with-rnib-talking-books
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