[bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:39:21 -0600
Interesting points from everyone! smile.
I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital
rights management.
What happened when the digital rights management was removed from
mp3 music downloads? Sales zoomed up! It didn't change the
behaviors of people who were going to steal mp3s. They didn't
steal any more mp3s than they were already stealing -- they just
continued stealing the ones they wanted. However, it did change
the market in that a large market segment (myself included) who
refused to buy something that had draconian and intrusive
"rights" protection on it stepped in and now bought the product
that was being offered when the digital rights management was
removed and the product was offered at a reasonable price.
I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will
willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by
listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford
expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very
limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare
downloads using either DAISY or Text Aloud has become an acquired
taste, one I've become used to and actually very much enjoy.
If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books
read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be
flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a
book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a
professional reader and studio to produce the master for each and
every book that becomes an audible book.
I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver
one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of
ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it.
Just my opinion. Grin.
Judy s.
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