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Digital Books and Magazines

Technology Assessment and Research Program

Development of Life Cycle Cost Model for DTBs

Digital Talking Book Distribution Analysis

Factsheet: Web-Braille

Flash Memory Distribution of Digital Talking Books

Frequently Asked Questions: Digital Talking Books (HTML)

Frequently Asked Questions: Digital Talking Books (contracted braille)

NLS Technical Circular 03-02: Audio Technology Initiatives

Strategic Business Plan for the Implementation of Digital Systems

Snapshot of Steps, Some with Links

• Research and development began in early 1990's
• Continuous assessment of consumer products
• Participated in creating standards
• Contest to design a DTB playback machine
• Developing software toolkit for generating DTB files
• Experimenting with creating digital narration of books
• NLS Patron Survey, 2003
• Building a digital collection

Roadmap for Digital Audio Talking Books

Our roadmap was first stated in a 1998 document, Digital Talking Books: Planning for the Future (July 1998). This has been updated in Digital Talking Books: Progress to Date (May 2002), followed by the Strategic Business Plan for 2003 and the Current Strategic Business Plan for the Implementation of Digital Systems (2006). You may also want to check out these areas of our site for DTB-related information: press releases     technical writings      speeches included in other writings

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Posted on 2011-03-03