[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
Chris Nusbaum
dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Mon May 2 19:55:20 UTC 2011
That's their argument, but it makes no sense to me. There are
about 3.1 million blind people in the country. So the authors
really would be getting * more * money from * more * customers
wanting to buy and read their books, but can't because the
E-books are inaccessible and only 5 percent of books are
available in Braille. I don't get it! If they're worried about
money from sold books so much, then they should be happy that in
enableing text-to-speech on E-book readers like the Kindle, there
would be more books sold. Therefore, by enableing TTS on the
Kindle, the revenue from sold books coming into the authors would
be * raised, * not lowered! See the iPad, hint hint.
Chris Nusbaum
"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jorge Paez <computertechjorgepaez at gmail.com
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Date sent: Sun, 1 May 2011 21:57:10 -0400
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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
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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
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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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