Cooler Heads Prevail: Audible and major publishers settle lawsuit over Audible Captions
In an interesting turn of events, Audible and a number of major publishers and publishing interests have settled their ongoing legal dispute over Audible Captions, the new feature for Audible which provides live transcriptions of audiobooks, two-to-three sentences at a time, accompanying the audio. The good news is that this avoids a protracted legal dispute. This was far from an open-and-shut case for publishers and would have been hard to predict what the courts would have
The DAISY Consortium joins forces with Digital Book World to talk accessibility
One area where trade publishing, independent publishing, and non-traditional publishing (such as publishing internally within corporations, or university presses) all align is in the need for published content to be as accessible as possible, to as many people as possible. We're fortunate to live in an age where our technology makes it feasible to make content broadly accessible, but we're also fortunate to live in an age where our society recognizes the need for such effort
