[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
Chris Nusbaum
dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Tue May 3 20:13:17 UTC 2011
Napster? Don't remember that. Explain, please?
Chris Nusbaum
"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)
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From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
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Date sent: Mon, 2 May 2011 19:40:34 -0700
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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
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Behalf Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
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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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