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Via an Australian site comes
this list of free Daisy players
http://www.guidedogswa.org/software/
most notably
Emerson
http://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/
a cross-platform reader which reads both Daisy and ePUB format ebooks (I haven't tried this one out yet so cannot vouch for how accessible it is).
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EASI free Webinars for June, read more and register at
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

1. Free Webinar: live Demo of DAISY Hardware Players
June 22 at 11 Pacific, noon mountain, 1 central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Robert Beach from Kansas City College

2. Free Webinar: Netcentric PDF Accessibility Wizard (PAW)
June 24 at 2 PM Eastern

Presenter Jeff Howcroft from Netcentric

PAW is an add-in for MS Word which, not only creates PDF documents from Word, it will check the accessibility of its PDF and, if there are problems, walks
you through repairing the document. There are other tools to repurpose a Word document for PDF but this is the only one which truly produces reliable,
accessible PDF output.

You can read more from the Netcentric Web site. 
http://www.net-centric.com/default.aspx
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ePub (Electronic Publication)
Filename extension: .epub 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

ePub and DAISY share some similarities but they are different standards. ePub is designed to be the format that the trade (Bookstore) community uses for commercial ebooks and is overseen by the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum). The current standard contains a DAISY book amongst its internal contents but this is typically locked up in the proprietary delivery format that the individual publishers and book distributors use.

To play DAISY materials you need a DAISY player and several of the commercial players play ePub along with several other formats. Unfortunately the eBook reader manufactures have not typically included a DAISY player in their devices or in their software, if they did you could also play DAISY materials on them. However, as there is a Daisy book and html files already in the ePub ebook, conversion software could be developed that could grab these files and extract them to make the ebook accessible (refer farther down this doc to read Arache's description of one of these conversion programs).
more info about epub )
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Kes: This is the new ebook reader developed by Ray Kurzweil http://blioreader.com/

Tek Talk offers an early look at Blio, the new touchstone in accessible e-book reading for everyone, Monday, April 5, 2010. This will provide an opportunity to learn more about the exploding world of e-books and the especially exciting e-book reader called Blio just being released by K-NFB Reading Technology.

As publishing of books around the world moves from ink on paper to digital bits and bytes, blind people have mobilized to insist that new products and media being developed must be accessible. Protests about lack of access with the Amazon Kindle have attracted public notice, but now comes Blio, providing a dynamic and accessible presentation of e-books to everyone. Therefore, during this week's Tek Talk event, James Gashel, Vice President of Business Development at K-NFB Reading Technology will demonstrate how Blio works and explain how this technology is about to make millions of books readily available on computers and mobile devices. Tired of waiting for books to be reproduced or transcribed in to accessible formats? Join us and learn how Blio gives blind people equal access in the mainstream world of books, newspapers, and magazines. Following the presentation, there will be plenty of time for questions from the virtual audience.
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