Please sign petition for Text To Speech on the Amazon Kindle e-book  device.

The correct web site address is 
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Readhttp://www.thepe 

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Please sign petition for Text To Speech on the Amazon Kindle e-book device.
Attend the NYC protest April 7!


Subject: Please sign petition for Text To Speech on the Amazon Kindle e-book
device. Attend the NYC protest April 7!

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.  Over twenty-five organizations have joined to form the Reading
Rights Coalition, which has set up an on-line petition to urge the Authors
Guild and Amazon to reverse course.

Please read and sign the petition here:
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www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Readhttp://www.thepe
titionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read

Please note: If you are using screen access technology, the first three
fields on the form to sign the petition may not be announced.
They are, in order: (1) a drop-down menu from which to select your prefix
(Mr., Mrs., etc.); (2) an edit field for your first name, and
(3) an edit field for your last name. The rest of the fields should announce
themselves as you tab to them.

Thank you so much for your participation in this critically important
effort. To learn more about this new coalition or to join, please go to the
website at <http://www.readingrights.org/http://www.readingrights.org



Jenifer

AAPD is a member of The Reading Rights Coalition as are several other COAT
organizations (e.g., ACB, AFB).


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