This news release comes from the National Federation of the Blind which is one of the organizations that is leading a protest against the Authors Guild. I’ve commented about this controversy several times in this blog, here and here. It appears things are starting to really get stirred up.
The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd Street on April 7, 2009, from noon to 2:00 p.m. The coalition includes the blind, people with dyslexia, people with learning or processing issues, seniors losing vision, people with spinal cord injuries, people recovering from strokes, and many others for whom the addition of text-to-speech on the Kindle 2 promised for the first time easy, mainstream access to over 245,000 books. Read the whole news release on the Maine Cite website
The Reading Rights Coalition have also started their own website
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The Reading Rights Coalition has set up an on-line petition to urge the Authors Guild and Amazon to reverse course. Please read, sign, and pass along the petition below to all your friends and family: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read