[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

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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Remember the brouhaha over Napster?

Mike

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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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 <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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 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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