[access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:20:20 +0100
Ian - It was a bit tongue in cheek; Maybe the titles for purchase are
professional recordings, but I found that the old talking book library's
recordings in many cases were very poorly read, hence my cancellation of my
membership; I'd rather buy professionally produced
recordings, the reader can make all the difference! - Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:35 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
| Books in the RNIB talking book library are not read by some bloke they
have
| dragged in offf the streets.
|
| Iain
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:01 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
|
|
| Ah! but is the RNIB daisy recording of the new HP narrated by Stephen
Frye,
| or some bloke they've dragged in off the street as with other of their
| 'recordings? :] - Andy
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:28 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
|
|
|| Roger, I can agree with you about the mark up generally applied to
|| specialist stuff for us, and almost expected by them as of right.
||
|| Harry Potter audio version? A bit different, or so I contend. First
|| off Stephen Fry won't be paid peanuts for his commercial recording of
|| it, plus paying for studio time, art work, distribution etc. Visually
|| impaired people are not the only audience either for these books. OK,
|| so this is a popular title that will be bought by many thousands of
|| people, but don't forget that public libraries are a gaurantteed
|| market for audio book producers, and like a good bit of access tech
|| sales, the price can be wound up to soak the big buyers at a price
|| that couldn't be got otherwise.
||
|| Synical though that view just (might) be, these are the realities as I
|| see them. This said, audio books, particularly unabridged ones, are
|| always going to be more exspensive than print versions. The only way
|| this reality can be broken is with the sort of subsidy that RNIB as a
|| charity can bring into play when it sells the small number of talking
|| books that it does. There Roger, as a blind person, is your way out
|| of getting the latest HP at a similar price to your print book buying
|| genral public. Buy a DAISY version of the latest HP from RNIB. (No
|| commission on that sale, unfortunately.) No wonder I've never made it
|| in the big bad world of business!
||
|| Cheers,
||
|| From Ray
|| I can be contacted off-list at:
|| mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
|| Behalf Of roger south
||
||
|| I do understand the Milestone and the BC have more functions but not
|| as ;;many as costing £200 more. I'm a firm believer in the
|| manufacturers see the disabled as a means of making more money with
|| the equipment we need. I'm convinced there is a price cartel that
|| keeps the price up because then we can't go elsewhere.
||
|| When something like the Zen Stone comes along it emphasises just that
|| point. Look at the price of audio books. The new Harry Potter is
|| priced I believe at £85. I will be able to buy a print copy a few days
|| after the release on the 21 July for around £8.99 if previous books
|| are anything to go by. But for the sake of a few CD's at around 8
|| pence each and the box to put it in we'll say a fiver I have to pay
|| £85. Now if that isn't ripping off the disabled what is. The same is
|| true of the players you mentioned but I'm climbing on my soapbox so
|| I'll shut up now.
||
|| Roger
||
|| Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
||
||
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: Ian Macrae
||
||
|| Makes you wonder why the milestone is so expensive comparatively
|| dunnit. any views?
||
||
||
||
|| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
|| Behalf Of roger south
|| Sent: 30 May 2007 11:15
|| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
||
||
|| I've ordered one of these from Amazon at £27.99 plus p & p totalling
|| altogether £30.12. It arrives tomorrow and sounds from the write-ups
|| very good. But at that price if it's not what I want I can give it
|| away as a present and not lose any sleep.
||
|| Roger
||
|| Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
||
||
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: Adrian Higginbotham
|| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:50 AM
|| Subject: [access-uk] new accessible mp3 player
||
||
|| Just read about the upcoming release of a new screenless audible
|| compatible mp3 player, at under £30 for 1gg version. and no
|| proprietory software like Itunes, just use it like any USB drive.
|| http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/
||
||
|| Adrian Higginbotham
||
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