these are well put questions and clarification on them will be welcome.
However, what this could signal is a closer relationship between RNIB and other
commercial producers of audio books. Perhaps RNIB will have a similar
relationship as Audible does with other commercial book producers. Has there
not already been some kind of deal between RNIB and HarperCollins?
Iain
On 20 Aug 2016, at 9:06 pm, David Griffith <daj.griffith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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