[Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Americans to Protest Amazons Push to Put Kindle E-books in Schools
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Wed Dec 12 01:34:35 UTC 2012
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>National Federation of the Blind
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>MEDIA ADVISORY
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>Blind Americans to Protest
>Amazon's Push to Put Kindle E-books in Schools
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>Date: December 12, 2012
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>Time: 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. PST
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>Place: <http://Amazon.com>Amazon.com Headquarters
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> 426 Terry Avenue North
> Seattle, WA 98109
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>On Wednesday, December 12, over a hundred members and supporters of
><http://www.nfb.org/>the National Federation of the Blind will
>participate in a protest outside of <http://Amazon.com>Amazon.com's
>headquarters in Seattle. David A. Paterson, the fifty-fifth
>governor of the state of New York, will also be participating. The
>informational picket will raise awareness of a recent push by Amazon
>to put Kindle e-books,
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/video/misc_2012/kindle_on_ios-1.wmv>which
> are inaccessible to blind students, into K-12 classrooms across
>the country. The action comes on the heels of Amazon's launch of
>Whispercast, a system designed to allow teachers and school
>administrators to push Kindle e-books to different devices,
>theoretically allowing the sharing of content among devices brought
>to school by the students. Kindle content, unlike some other e-book
>products, is not accessible to blind students, even on devices that
>are themselves accessible to the blind, such as personal computers
>and iPads. For more information about the protest or this important
>issue, please visit <http://www.nfb.org/kindle-books>nfb.org/kindle-books.
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>About the National Federation of the Blind
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>The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is the oldest, largest,
>and most influential nationwide membership organization of blind
>people in the United States. Founded in 1940, the NFB advocates for
>the civil rights and equality of blind Americans, and develops
>innovative education, technology, and training programs to provide
>the blind and those who are losing vision with the tools they need
>to become independent and successful. We need your support. To
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