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08-31-2013, 05:29 AM | #1 | |
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84 percent of top 1,000 titles available as accessible e-books, study finds
Although not all authors and publishers are keen to allow things that would make e-books more available, like electronic text-to-speech, overall e-books have been a blessing to visually impaired blind and partially sighted people, according to a new report by the UK-based Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Over the past four years, the charity looked at what they consider the 1,000 most popular books and determined the proportion of those that were available as an accessible e-book.
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Related: How important is text-to-speech capability to you?, Amazon, Kobo and Sony request e-readers be exempt from accessibility laws [via booktrade.info] |
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08-31-2013, 06:12 AM | #2 |
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This is based only on the books that THEY consider to be the top 1,000. Others may not consider that list to be the definitive answer.
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Me, I'm more interested in books from the "middle ten million". Whenever I see the term "top xxxx" books I move on. Those lists are either interested in bestsellers or litfic, neither of which is my cup of tea. |
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I have never been one of those. I rarely find the books I like at the top of lists. I rarely enjoy the Olympics since the US coverage never shows the sports I am interested in. I guess I am to much a loner in the things that interest me.
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Their key finding is not an English sentence. Sigh. What do they actually mean?
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