On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2009” time-frame.
Archive for “April, 2009”
Author’s Guild Responds to Protests
I received the below email from the Author’s Guild in response to the Reading Rights Coalition protest held yesterday in NYC. Based on their statement it still appears that the definition of audio rights will have to first be agreed upon. As someone who has been reading both books using TTS and audio narration, I [...]
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No More Greed, We Want To Read!
This was one of the slogans chanted during Tuesday’s protest organized by the Reading Rights Coalition. The demonstration, held outside of the NYC office of The Author’s Guild, seemed to be well attended both in person and virtually. Thanks to Mika Pyykhala and John Oliveira of the Association of Blind Citizens for streaming the event. [...]
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Allow Everyone Access to E-books
I just signed the petition started by the Reading Rights Coalition. This organization began after Amazon released their latest version of their E-Book reader, the Kindle 2.0. The product which has built in Text to Speech has been attacked by the Author’s Guild. The Guild argues that this feature which uses synthetic speech to [...]
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Learning to Read, Again. Thanks Hadley!
For the past few months I have been taking courses from The Hadley School for the Blind. If you’re not familiar with Hadley, it’s a free distance learning school for people who are visually impaired and blind. Their mission: To promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for people who are blind or visually [...]
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