- eBook publishers
- The expected major boom didnt occur
- Feature sets of current e-book formats to do not yet fully exploit the possibilities of the digital format
- DAISY/NISO working closely and sharing components with open eBook forum (oebf)
- audio publishers
- Commercial audio formats very limited
- DAISY is compatible (mp3, OSTA) but additional features of DAISY are not available
- print publishers
- XML-based publishing is the future of large-scale publishers
- No de-facto standard for multimedia publications exist in this field - DAISY is becoming an alternative for the mainstream