[Pibe-division] Support Reading Rights!

[Judi Piscitello]

Equal and not separate Reading Rights for People with Print
Disabilities

As technology advances and more books move from hard-copy print to
electronic formats, people with print disabilities deserve the
opportunity to enjoy access to books on an equal basis with those who
can read print.Reading Rights http://www.readingrights.org/represents 15
million Americans who cannot read print because of blindness, dyslexia,
spinal cord injury, and other print disabilities.  We include school
children, the elderly, professionals, college students, returning
veterans, and your neighbors, family members and friends.  We want to
buy books.  We have fought very hard for many years to have equal access
to technology and information.  For the first time, now that the Amazon
Kindle 2 offers text-to-speech, which will read a book aloud, we can
purchase and enjoy books like everybody else.  Sadly, the Authors Guild
does not support equal access for us.   The Guild has told us that to
read their books with text-to-speech we must either submit to a special
registration system (that not all may qualify for and that would expose
disability information to all future eBook reader manufacturers) and
prove our disabilities -- or pay extra.  The Guild’s position is
contrary to the principle of equal opportunity for all and discriminates
against millions of people with print disabilities.
Please support us by joining our informational protestsand Sign the
Petition: We Want to Read (
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read
).http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read 
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