Hi Esther, Thank you for the effort in your reply. I have just now downloaded the Audible app, and I will get an account and get the book there. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 12:21 AM Subject: Re: books from the iStore.
Hi Glenn, > I was looking into the "walking dead" series books from the iStore. > My question is, are they all audio books, or does it have to state that it > is an audio book? > I have never gotten a book from the iStore before. > Here's the link: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/walking-dead-vol.-1-days-gone/id496738324?mt=11 The link you gave is to the iBooks Store, which means that you would be getting an eBook rather than an audiobook, and you'd be reading the text with whatever voice you have selected for use with VoiceOver on your iOS device. These books can't be read on your Mac at present. But there's a second issue in this case. The iBooks Store has this series both as regular eBooks and as "graphics novels". You gave a link to the graphics comic book version of this book published by "Image Comics", and I have no idea whether a "graphics novel" is accessible with VoiceOver. There's also a version of the eBook that is published by St. Martin's Press: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-walking-dead/id425332309?mt=11 I would expect that version of the book to be accessible. However, if I wanted to read this book, I would get the audio version rather than the ePub version. There is a version of the audiobook in the iTunes Store, which is read by Fred Berman and costs $23.95 in the U.S. iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/walking-dead-rise-governor/id471453233 My own recommendation would be to get the audio version from Audible.com. If you enjoy listening to audiobooks, an Audible membership will let you purchase these at better prices, and you can download them again at any time in different formats. You can also use the Audible app on your iOS device to directly download your past purchases and listen to them on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad with a very accessible app. Here's the link to the same audiobook at the U.S. Audible site: • The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor (unabridged) by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, read by Fred Berman http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B005SI2ZIY HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
