[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

[Mike Freeman]

I don't think they're planning to actively market the value of
text-to-speech as an audio medium.  You'd have to ask Dr. Maurer or others
involved in negotiations with publishers but I suspect that ultimately it's
little more than a knee-jerk reaction to the word "audio".  They *do* get
quite a bit of money from human-read audio books so probably figure that
allowing blanket use of text-to-speech would cut into this market or set a
precedence for audio to be free.  Both assertions are ridiculous.  But their
reasoning is so obscure and irrational to me that I truly can't answer the
question intelligently. <smile>

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jorge Paez
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 6:57 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

Is it true they're not allowing it because "its a market?"

In other words,
they wanna record text to speech engines reading books to sell as part of
mainstream sales later on and so they're not allowing it in current devices.


On May 1, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Partly.  But we're nowhere near there yet and some Kindle books still 
> don't allow speech access.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 4:37 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
> 
> Glad to have the coalition website; and did the kindle become accessible?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tina Hansen
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:04 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
> 
> Maybe I can explain. The Reading Rights Coalition is not officially 
> affiliated with the NFB, but it's a consortium of organizations who 
> have voiced their concerns about access to the Kindle and other 
> mainstream electronic books. The coalition is made up of blindness 
> organizations as well as organizations with other disabilities that 
> make reading print difficult. The web site is
> 
> www.readingrights.org
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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