[access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:52:01 +0100
Well Steve, that's good to hear; perhaps I'll check out the catalogue. I
have to say that so far, Audible has served me well for titles. Because of
the whole nature of the spoken word thing, there is still so much not
available; it is improving all the time though <smile> - Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
| Hi Andy,
|
| I know what you mean, but things have changed now. Quite a few of the
books
| are recordings of the commercial offerings, and as such, are pretty good.
|
| All the best
|
| Steve
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
| Andy Collins
| Sent: 31 May 2007 10:20
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: new accessible mp3 player
|
| 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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