To put things in perspective: we started a partnership with a publisher of audiobooks (i.e., CD or MP3 digital download), and the 30 title mentioned above are part of an initial batch of ~70 titles, which are being released bi-weekly.
Meanwhile, other three (Italian) publishers have become interested in the product, so I guess the wave has been started. Plus, I think that the potential market is huge, especially for "language X as second language" titles.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
not at this point in time, not until more reading devices/apps support it.
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You are correct. Current Reading Systems are bad (in general), and simply atrocious when it comes to supporting audio (in EPUB3), especially for audio-ebooks like ours. I even wrote a JS library (
https://github.com/pettarin/rb_smil_emulator ) to emulate Media Overlay support in iBooks, which does not provide it in reflow mode...
Fortunately, w.r.t. RS support, I
know that things are going to change for the best pretty soon...
