Good work SteveAt 08:00 AM 4/6/2009, you wrote:
>To sign the petition (copied below) go to:
>http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read
>
>Petition: Allow Everyone Access to E-books
>
>Target:The Authors Guild
>Sponsored by: The Reading Rights Coalition
>
>When Amazon released the Kindle 2 electronic book reader on February 9, 
>2009, the company announced that the device would read e-books aloud using 
>text-to-speech technology.  Under pressure from the Authors Guild, Amazon 
>has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to 
>disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books 
>available for the Kindle 2.
>
>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 organizations that 
>represent 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.
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>For more background, see: http://www.readingrights.org/
>
>
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>--Steve Noble, President
>Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky
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>502-969-3088
>http://www.ldaofky.org/
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