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Originally Posted by Katie1
Why would people that Cant see even want to buy a PW? Crazy...
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Space: The Braille edition of either
The Message or
The New International Version of the Bible is 15 shelf feet. Shelves are 15 inches deep;
Cost: Braille printed material costs roughly a dollar per page. More, if nobody is subsidizing the cost of the Braille printing.
Availability: Most material is not available in Braille format. Material like Tad Williams
To The Green Tower: Part 1 becomes available in Braille, only if somebody subsides the cost of transcribing it.
If the comparison is to Audio Books, rather than Braille Books, then the issues are:
Cost: Looking through the Amazon AudioBook shop, it looks like audio books are roughly twice the cost of the pbook. Understandable, because the cost of producing an audio book is much higher than that of producing a pbook.
Availability: Typically, audio books are released three to six months after the pbook --- if the pbook is a commercial success. If the pbook is published by an independent publishers/small publisher, then the odds are that an audio book will not be made, unless BARD does so.
If the comparison is to Moon printed material, then take everything written about Braille material and:
* Multiply the space requirements by 10;
* Multiply the cost requirements by ten orders of magnitude;
* Decrease the availability of material by 10^9 orders of magnitude.
Amber