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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">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.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Reading Rights </B><A href="http://www.readingrights.org/">http://www.readingrights.org/</A><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>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, <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">the Authors Guild does not support equal access for us</SPAN></STRONG><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">. </B><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">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.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></STRONG> The Guild’s position is contrary to the principle of equal opportunity for all and discriminates against millions of people with print disabilities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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