| 词条 | Assistive Media |
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Assistive Media was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1996 by David Erdody as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.[2][3] According to Erdody, it was inspired by his father's diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, an avid reader of The New Yorker magazine and audiobooks.[1][5] He considers Duvall Hecht's Books on Tape (company) and the narration style of Grover Gardner to have had a major influence on his admiration for the audiobook format [https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/grover-gardner/] . Utilizing volunteer readers and work-study students from the University of Michigan,[2][3] Assistive Media began producing and distributing spoken-word recordings of otherwise inaccessible materials on audio cassette to The Washtenaw County, Michigan Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled, a participating library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress.[3] In 1998, with the advent of online digital audio formats such as RealAudio, direct distribution of recordings shifted to the Assistive Media website and has received praise from the at-large online disabled community and also from David McCullough, Mark Cuban, and John Perry Barlow.[4][5] In 1999, Assistive Media was awarded RealNetworks, Inc.'s Progressive Streamers Award as the best nonprofit streaming web site of the year over Peter Gabriel's Witness (organization).[1][6] Assistive Media has produced spoken-word recordings of works of nonfiction literature and long-form journalism from The Atlantic, Granta, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Scientific American, and Wired.[4] It is considered one of the longest continuously running Internet-based nonprofit services. In 2011, Assistive Media began recording unabridged full-length books of biographical, historical, and contemporary nonfiction for online delivery to libraries that specialize in books for the blind . References1. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19425504/disabilities_online_readings/|title=Disabilities: On-line readings|last=|first=|date=June 4, 1999|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}} 2. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304/May24_04/14.shtml|title=Spotlight: The gift of sound|last=Nesbit|first=Joanne|date=June 1, 2004|work=The University Record Online|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publisher=University of Michigan}} 3. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://www.assistivemedia.org/Assistive_Media/About_us.html|title=About us|publisher=Assistive Media|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=April 20, 2018}} 4. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/06/cyber/articles/30audio.html|title=New Media Helps Visually Impaired Hear Old Media|last=Clausing|first=Jeri|date=June 30, 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19425892/a_web_of_dumb_laws_and_paper_clips/|title=A Web of Dumb Laws and Paper Clips|last=Kaplan|first=Karen|date=February 1, 1999|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}} 6. ^{{Cite press release|title=Record-Setting RealNetworks Conference & Exhibition '99|date=May 17, 1999|publisher=RealNetworks|location=Seattle|url=http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/1999/rncrecap.html?UK=X|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020609185456/http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/1999/rncrecap.html?UK=X|archive-date=June 9, 2002}} External links
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