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but the spin sounds impressive in this press release
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100617005665&newsLang=en
This is not being mentioned in any of the press releases, but K-NFB (that's Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation for the Blind) decided to go with Quark as a format over ePub, even though ePub is becoming the format preferred by publishers and many experts on ebook technologies. Also, I hear that, despite the involvement of the NFB, the Blio will not support Daisy, which is the format used by all of the libraries for the blind, including Bookshare and the NLS (the branch of the Library of Congress which provides books for readers with disabilities).
So this means that, at best, Blio would need to be only one of your ereaders if you are an ebook consumer. And Quark? I've heard my editor housemate talk about this format, but it's proprietary, which means a lot of the small press publishers are not going to be producing ebooks in this format. Do ebook consumers really need another proprietary format? Not this one, at least.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100617005665&newsLang=en
This is not being mentioned in any of the press releases, but K-NFB (that's Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation for the Blind) decided to go with Quark as a format over ePub, even though ePub is becoming the format preferred by publishers and many experts on ebook technologies. Also, I hear that, despite the involvement of the NFB, the Blio will not support Daisy, which is the format used by all of the libraries for the blind, including Bookshare and the NLS (the branch of the Library of Congress which provides books for readers with disabilities).
So this means that, at best, Blio would need to be only one of your ereaders if you are an ebook consumer. And Quark? I've heard my editor housemate talk about this format, but it's proprietary, which means a lot of the small press publishers are not going to be producing ebooks in this format. Do ebook consumers really need another proprietary format? Not this one, at least.
