[NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition

Wed Feb 1 16:24:44 UTC 2023

Good morning:

Permit me to weigh in here. I do not believe anyone is asking that the blind receive Audible services for free. In fat, none of us is even asking for a blind discount or any discount relevant to disability. What we are asking is that Audible move with some alacrity to ensure that users of both the old and new Victor Reader Streams who choose to purchase services from Audible be given the opportunity to use the Victor Reader Stream to play Audible content. If that were not the case, I myself would not have signed the petition. I have been an Audible customer for more than 15 years now, and I'd like to be able to continue to use my Victor Reader Stream to read the books which I have paid for through Audible.

Best regards,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: Re: [NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition

Good Morning Gang.

I understand, that for some, this pill may be a tough one to swallow. But, I feel I need to be truthful, so this thread will not continue endlessly without anyone else doing anything here. I, for one, will not be signing any such petition. I think we, here, all are well aware that neither Kindle, nor Audible, are free services and are available not just for blind folks, but the rest of the general public, as well. Both services have a variety of plans that we are all invited to purchase and utilize according to any of our preferences and/or economic capacities. We can choose to partake, or not to become members of either or both services, fdor that matter. I hardly think that Amazon, which owns both services, as long as they're discovering that folks are downloading their material without paying for it, are going to let that continue.  I apologize. But, that's the hard reality of this thing. Unfortunately, this is how the consumer world works. There's no such thing as a "free lunch." 

Bern

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> On Jan 31, 2023, at 1:43 PM, Terri Nettles via NFB-Lions <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know how to do that.
> 
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> From: NFB-Lions <nfb-lions-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton via
> NFB-Lions
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 10:56 AM
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> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition
> 
> You may have to fix the url to sign the petition. If you don't know how to
> do that, let me know.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Lions <nfb-lions-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Terri Nettles
> via NFB-Lions
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> Subject: Re: [NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition
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> Milton I entered on the link and it says no letter found.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Lions <nfb-lions-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton via
> NFB-Lions
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2023 3:29 PM
> To: 'NFB and Lions' <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>; 'North Dakota Talk Discussion List'
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> Subject: [NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition
> 
> Please consider signing this petition if you haven't done so already. Also
> spread this to the blind community as widely as possible as it is going to
> need a lot of signatures.
> 
> 
> 
> Forgive me for sharing this to the list, but this is a subject I am
> passionate about and is very important to us.
> 
> 
> 
> For some time now, it has become more difficult to link a Humanware Victor
> Reader Stream product with the Audible book service via its Audible Sync
> application. This means that it is not possible for those people to use the
> Stream with the Audible book service.
> 
> 
> 
> Audible is one of the primary methods these days for listening to audio
> books and this is undoubtedly the device on which many people choose to hear
> them.
> 
> 
> 
> As a company, we often recommend that people use the Victor Reader Stream.
> As of this moment, anyone who wishes to link such a device to Audible cannot
> do so and certainly the new upcoming version 3, to be released in February,
> will not be supported.
> 
> 
> 
> I urge you please if you have a moment to sign an accessible online petition
> to try to persuade Amazon and Audible to work with Humanware so as to ensure
> this service is reinstated. Even if you are not a Stream user, I would be
> grateful please for a minute of your time so that those of us who use
> Streams on a daily basis have a chance of protecting our listening to
> Audible books in the future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> https://openletter.earth/to-amazons-audiblecom-division-please-reinstate-sup
> port-for-humanwares-popular-victor-reader-stream-player-for-the-blind-and-lo
> w-vision-community-c26fcf78
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for reading.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Hartgen
> 
> Hartgen Consultancy.
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