[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

Tue May 3 00:44:30 UTC 2011

Wow! Seriously? But how does it make sense from a business 
standpoint? Companies in the private sector only work for profit, 
right? They're all putting their good or service out to the world 
with the hopes of earning money (a profit) from that good or 
service.  Using this example, the authors are putting their good 
(books) out to the world with the hopes that people will buy 
their books and therefore they will earn a profit off of the sold 
books.  So, again, by enableing text-to-speech on E-book readers, 
the authors are opening the door to 1.3 million more potential 
buyers (and then some) than they're currently tapping into, 
which, if some of those 1.3 million people buy their books, will 
increase the profit coming into the authors, which is the end 
goal.  What am I missing here?

Chris Nusbaum

"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)

 ----- Original Message -----
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Chris:
Your logic is flawless.
Taking it from a business point,
it makes complete sense though.
Here's the thing:
those groups sometimes make very dumb decisions with a closed 
mind.
For example: can you imagine they tried to attack the sale of 
second hand books?

Like,
say you have a book and sold it to someone who really wants it,
well, they tried to classify that as a violation of copyright! 
law.

So yeah, those groups aren't always logical about their 
decisions.

Jorge

On May 2, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Chris Nusbaum wrote:

 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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 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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