[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

[Chris Nusbaum]

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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<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 1 May 2011 21:57:10 -0400
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


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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
 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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