[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

Tue May 3 02:40:34 UTC 2011

Remember the brouhaha over Napster?

Mike

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Of Jorge Paez
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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
> 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-----
> 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
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> 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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