Re: [playogg-discuss] Playogg template letter: please comment

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> There's a new audio format called Ogg Vorbis that is not restricted by any

It isn't really "new", saying this gives a connotation of "unproven",
"not widely
used", etc. Maybe "more recent" ?

> patents. It also achieves a much higher sound quality for a given file
> size than MP3, and it works in a wide range of portable audio players,

Not sure about the "much", might sound fishy to a reader. Maybe
"substantially" ?

> cellphones, and car stereos. It also works--without the need for any
> special plugins like Flash or Quicktime--in almost 25% of the world's web

Implies it does not work on 75%. Maybe drop a line saying it works on much
more than 25% if allowing plugins, like you need for MP3 (I think ?) in the
first place ?

> browsers. Wikipedia is exclusively using Ogg Vorbis (and a similar video

s/similar/related/

> format Ogg Theora) for all its audio and video offerings. In other words,
> this is something that is proven to work on large sites, at a large scale.
>
> The costs of converting your audiobooks to Ogg format are pretty minimal,
> it could be a small project for your team, and I'd be happy to provide
> them with some tools that could help.

Maybe mention it can be automated for existing and future audiobooks, such
that any hit will not recur ?

> Please let me know if you can commit to offering your books as Ogg within
> the year.

Maybe state clearly that they can offer both, so they would not alienate any
clients who would, for any reason, prefer MP3, and could only gain new
clients by offering Ogg/Vorbis too.