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Baker & Taylor has the next big thing in ebooks. Really!
December 9, 2009 - 12:26pm — Bibliofuture
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We’re about to see the Next Big Thing in ebooks next month and it’s coming from Baker & Taylor. Baker & Taylor?
On January 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, K-NFB will unveil a new “reading technology.” We in the book business will get to know it as a proprietary ebook platform from Baker & Taylor that has capabilities nothing presented previously can match. The platform is called Blio and creator K-NFB is a partnership of tech visionary Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of the Blind.
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"proprietary e-book platform"
Oh wow, a proprietary e-book platform. I'll stack this right next to my Sony ATRAC player and my DivX discs.
Blog post
The blog post is by Mike Shatzkin, a publishing industry consultant that has been in the book business a long time. If he comments positively on something it it probably at least looking at.
Your forgot one
You forgot one thing to put on your pile
I'll stack this right next to my Sony ATRAC player and my DivX discs and librarians.
Kindle and others
I was going to order a Kindle to play with and then decide how to circ it. I decided against it because with all the new products coming our I'd rather wait a few months when there will be greater selection.
Or maybe like Macs?
Maybe I read it wrong, but it sounded more like the Apple approach--not the dominant player, but possibly with a dedicated following because of the high quality. But maybe that's because I work with a blind program and know that most current platforms are completely inaccessible for people with vision impairment.