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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Online Daisy platform
online audio book and e-book distribution
DODP service online since 2011

4. + Online Daisy apps
Since 2012: NLB (Norway), MTM (Sweden), Inläsningstjänst
(Sweden), Anderslezen (Belgium) Pratsam – Celia (Finland),…

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Talking newspaper
 Daily spoken newspapers
since 2008
 Computer voice
 All Flemish newspapers
 Smart phone, computer,
DAISY player, MP3 player,…

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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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Virtual world library
Through Online Daisy app

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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?

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Bert Paepen
Co-Founder Pyxima
bert.paepen@pyxima.com
www.online-daisy.com
Thank you