State libraries for the blind in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Oregon, along with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, have partnered to launch "Unabridged.info," a digital audio book service for visually impaired users (http://www.unabridged.info). Those users will be able to check out and download digital spoken-word audio books directly to their computers and then replay them on a PC, transfer them to a portable MP3 playback device, or burn them onto CDs. The service is powered by a new digital audio book system from OverDrive (http://www.overdrive.com), and content is delivered as encrypted Windows Media Audio files, making use of Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) service.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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