Wednesday, November 7, 2007

#22 Audiobooks (or “The end is in sight”)

Marvellous, revolutionary resource for customers, though will not right now eliminate physical CD Audio Books (our standard challenge of maintaining several formats applies because all our customers will never be early adopters).

Looked at & watched demos on:
http://www.oclc.org/audiobooks/
http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/
http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/demos/salesdemo.htm http://www.overdrive.com/files/DLReBooks.pdf http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/tour/default.asp

So liberating to be less tied to the technology of a specific player than in past, but still a great shame to be unable to load to iPod. Paradigm shift to library paying for a service/access for customers as opposed to owning an asset needs to be fully recognized by funders.

http://worldebookfair.com/Mp3eBooks.htm Though ingenious, Gutenberg Computer voice audio e-book was disconcerting & not restful. Turned with relief to Human voice files & Sound of Human Voice Collection. While it is wonderful & a tremendous achievement to have classic titles of lesser demand though this free site, major popular demand & therefore a substantial commitment, would be for paid services.

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http://worldbookfair.qoop.com/
http://worldebookfair.com/Childrens_eBooks.htm
Noted http://worldebookfair.com/PLIN.htm (public libraries international network publications) under http://worldebookfair.com/Collections.htm

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