[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

Tue May 3 11:39:30 UTC 2011

Yeah--another of those cases. Good point.

On May 2, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Remember the brouhaha over Napster?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> 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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