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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Dear Fellow
Federationists:<br><br>
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The Reading Rights Coalition, led by the National Federation of the
Blind, is scheduled to participate in the Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books. The coalition will have a table set up in one of the
festival’s exhibit areas so that we may provide the reading and
publishing communities with information about our concerns regarding the
threatened “turning off” of text-to-speech in books available for
Amazon’s Kindle 2 electronic reading device. The festival, the largest
book fair in the world, will take place on the campus of the
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California at Los Angeles from April 25-26. If you would like to
help with our exhibit, please contact Ann-Marie Laney by calling (410)
659-9314, extension 2219, or e-mail her at
<a href="mailto:alaney@nfb.org">alaney@nfb.org</a>. Please join us
in our continuing efforts to ensure that everyone has access to e-books.
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