[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

Tue May 3 01:22:47 UTC 2011

Chris:

no--I meant making it available makes sence from a business standpoint.

Sorry for the confusion.

On May 2, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Chris Nusbaum wrote:

> 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 -----
> From: Jorge Paez <computertechjorgepaez at gmail.com
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:24:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
> 
> 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
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 4:37 PM
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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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