Books on computers: format combines text and audio narration is an example of a story that appeared in a number of Canadian venues about a Florida company, AV Books, Inc., that is coming out with a first title on CD where you have can read a book on the screen and hear it in MP3. I can’t believe that this story was successfully placed by the company – companies have has talking books for at least a decade. The first ones I saw were for kids from Discus Books in the late 80s (correction below), then Voyager has a series of books for computers. The only thing new in this story is MP3 format for the audio and there are plenty of people exchanging MP3s for audio-books.
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Category: Markup and Text Representation
Markup: Buzzetti and Renear
One of the best exchanges at the Brown Conference was between Dino Buzzetti, who gave a paper on “Markup and Text Representation”, and Allen Renear who responded on markup. Both are philosophers and their two papers stood out as a very careful working out of the question “what is markup?”
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