Presentation about the Online Daisy platform for online audio book distribution, made at the DAISY Annual General Meeting in Paris, June 10, 2015 by Bert Paepen, Pyxima Co-founder.
The brand new Online Daisy app, showcased in this presentation, allows readers to connect to virtually any online audio book service in the world from their handheld.
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Daisy General Assembly
June 10, 2015
Paris
Bert Paepen, Co-Founder Pyxima
DAISY online
delivery
Pyxima experiences
and future vision
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Pyxima DNA
Social care software
Improve quality of life & care through software innovation
Focus areas
Digital talking books for reading impaired
Elderly care, patient monitoring by assessment instruments
Customers
Public libraries
Libraries for the reading impaired
Publishers
Spin-off K.U. Leuven – Prof. Jan Engelen
Friend of the DAISY Consortium
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Some figures
150.000 app users so far (2013-May 2015)
including 60.000 Swedish school children
MTM: 50% of loans done via app Legimus
200 Flemish libraries used DODP and Readium for lending e-
books – but proved difficult to use Readium for broad audience apps
90% of users is dyslexic – apps truly help in making talking
books attractive to dyslexic readers
iOS most popular platform but shifting in favour of Android
about our online distribution work
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Pyxima experiences with DODP
Message overload in app / server communication
Multi-device bookmarks combined with offline reading
Additional metadata such as cover images
Improved content lists
Guest login
Contributions to DODP v2
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Access for all
E-books for reading impaired?
Audio books for non reading impaired?
Visually impaired readers as market
segment instead of mere niche group with
special needs
EPUB3 important evolution to make this
happen
Towards e-book online delivery protocol?