This is important. Please consider signing the petition.

Axel Schmetzke
Library
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point


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From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen L Noble
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:00 AM
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Subject: Petition: Allow Everyone Access to E-books

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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