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Blind Readers in Fight with Amazon and Kindle Over Right to "Books on Tape"

By Brian Wolfman

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Read this terrific post over at U.S. PIRG's consumer blog, chock full of great links. Here's the first paragraph:

Last week, on a chilly day, over 350 advocates for the blind and others with print disabilities held a protest in front of the Author's Guild in New York City over the authors' demand that speech software on the Kindle 2 e-book reader be turned off to preserve authors' rights to royalties from selling "books on tape" products that they read themselves. Amazon, the Kindle's maker/seller, has capitulated to the authors. The authors want the blind to submit to a special registration process where they would pay a fee and would be granted a license to turn the robotic reader software back on. They claim the Kindle 2 otherwise violates copyright laws. Fair use experts say "not true." We agree with advocates for the blind and others with reading disabilities that the authors are wrong on the law and wrong to pick this fight and that Amazon took the wrong side. 

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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