Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The ship has sailed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in “the cloud.” Thousands of ebooks pour into the library from over 168 publishers and textbook requests are fulfilled every month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company has partnered with 20,000 publishers so that you can buy ebooks directly from the app. Glose also supports audio books. While Glose is sticking around for now, Medium also plans to integrate ebooks and audio books to its service. Glose Is A New Ebook Reader That Turns Reading Into A Social Experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. a11y accessibility blind blindness Bookshare DAISY ebooks education giving India Lavelle Fund for the Blind philanthropy print disabilities' government and states like Texas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 10, 2009

The second announcement was by Plextor of Japan, about their new ebook player that will play Bookshare books. The device also allows users to record their own audio books. It still takes downloading the book to a PC and transferring it to the cell phone, but I'm looking forward to getting rid of that extra step!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic. She wants to see every piece of content that is born digital be born accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. We believe that all ebooks should be fully accessible, so that a person with a disability can effectively use the exact same ebook that somebody without a disability gets on their Kindle or iPad.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Audible, which is owned by Amazon, launched a new subscription plan called Audible Plus in August, which gives listeners access to Audible’s original audio content at a cheaper monthly cost. The catch is that they don’t receive credits to download ebooks that aren’t already free in Audible’s catalog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

To encourage more email subscribers, require that viewers sign-up for your email list in order to access some of your website’s original content like an eBook, long-form blog article, video, interview and more. Share links to this content on the social channels with the most relevant audiences for your content. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. It’s expensive to adapt textbooks to be accessible. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But ebooks and audio books are by far the most popular accessible formats, and publishers do sell them (although ironically many of these have digital rights management technologies designed to defeat illegal copying but also stop accessibility technology).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The World Blind Union's Right to Read Campaign estimates that less than ten percent of all books published are available in accessible formats such as braille, large print, and audio talking books. It is politically popular. Helping people with disabilities gain access to education and books is a cause everyone can identify with.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Learni is a fledgling education technology company that aims to create better learning ebooks, enabling users to navigate, search, mark and annotate them. Words that are ‘one-layered’ in actual books can be automatically linked to other sources for information (translation, Wikipedia, audio, search etc.).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I’m throwing the doors open on my library of ebooks and ebook/audio combos, and marking them all half off. Choose from these ebooks & audios: Simple Success Fundraising Plan. To celebrate these five years, I’ve decided to give you something.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. One of the benefits of internet events is that you may distribute immediate access to digital goodies like downloads, special offers, or links to webinars. 9) Movie screenings.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, creating any digital guide (petition, checklist, infographic, eBook, online course) is not enough to ensure success. Audio files or Videos. eBook/checklist/white paper/report. eBook/checklist/white paper. You need to make sure that what you create actually solves a problem your potential donors want to solve!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

SendOwl enables creators and businesses to sell digital goods such as ebooks, podcasts, online courses, memberships, coaching services, live remote events and more. Regarding the most popular activity on the platform, SendOwl sees lots of merchants selling audio files such as music, podcasts and guides.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

BONUS #1: “3 Keys to Successful Fundraising in Good Times and Bad” ebook and audio. This training kit contains a short, to-the-point workbook and an audio CD to help you focus your thinking and set yourself up for success. BONUS #2: “How to Take the Fear Out of Fundraising” ebook and audio. Register now!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. It lets you make audio and video calls, run online meetings, check my team’s presence status, and send instant messages. This app has stuff to distract my kids, without disabling some of the things I want to have still work. It also calculates calories burned by exercise.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Normally, I reach for my Kindle when I want to read an ebook or a Switch when I want a portable game machine, but the screen on the Note 20 Ultra is big enough that I never felt like I needed either. Samsung Notes can realign your handwriting, convert it to text, and play back audio from the moment you wrote it. Here we go.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. A TechSoup employee calls our tech support line, and if nobody picks it up, the app calls a succession of people until someone fields the trouble ticket.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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Skills Management Train Training 52

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

It will have some sort of audio system (with help from THX) that will solve for the muffled voices masks can cause. The ThinkBook Plus debuted at last year’s CES, standing out as a laptop with an E Ink display built into the lid that allowed users to take notes, read ebooks, and display things like calendar information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

If you’ve been around the block as long as I have, you remember the days before an audio codec was settled upon. EBooks are moving into adolescence, and the question is, which format will win, or does one format have to win? Sony’s eBook reader and store dies because no one uses it. Other formats wane in importance.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

For example, you can take 5 related blog posts and combine them into a massive ebook or white paper to distribute as a content upgrade. Here’s a list of equipment and software I’ve used in the past to create 5-10 minute demo videos: Microphone: Audio-Technica. Repurpose Content Into New Mediums.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

The Tab S8’s smaller size makes it more suited for tablet-style tasks, such as reading ebooks. Though this has become common among high-end phones, these are the first tablets I’ve seen that do not come with a charger in the box.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. It would have been more like those audio tours, and it’s not about that. How will the visitors, the registrars, and the security guards respond? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Download eBook. While livestreaming is largely focused on showing content to a mass audience, modern platforms can now: Allow one-on-one video chats Facilitate text chat for quick questions Create breakout rooms Screen record event content Hide or display video/audio. Bidding Software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! For those who want to use audio with other mobile devices or DAISY players, we have added DAISY audio and MP3 format download capability for all of our titles, in addition to our existing DAISY text and Braille Ready Format (BRF) options. Thanks again!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Download eBook. If this event is virtual, you can tell the story online through videos, images, and audio. Set up a tournament so that supporters have a little friendly competition. Their friends and families will love to support them and give to your cause. Master peer-to-peer fundraising by connecting with your incredible supporters.

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