Hi Jacob, Jake wrote:
> But will we be able to actually read the books after the author's > guild basically said we have no right to and Amazon caved to them? It > can have all the audible menus in the world, but if I can't read the > book based on a licensing decision then it's still of no use. That's the next step! and I agree that I'd rather have an accessible iPhone app through Stanza. Cheers, Esther > Personally, I'd rather have an accessible version of the iPhone app > anyway. $400 simply for an Ebook reader is just too much. > Currently, the Kindle II has tts capability for books but only if > thepublisher allows it, and most do not thanks to the author's guild. > > Esther wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention on this list of >> Amazon's >> announcement that they will update the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX to >> include an audible menu that will use text-to-speech and add new >> large >> fonts to better support vision-impaired users, and will implement >> these changes in 2010. This has been covered in a few places since >> yesterday. >> >> Here's the press release at Amazon: >> >> http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1362556&highlight= >> >> A few links to articles reporting on this: >> • Yahoo (basically the news release) >> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Blind-and-VisionImpaired-bw-2422175966.html?x=0&.v=1 >> • Techflash (has some commentary from the NFB, student reaction, and >> other description) >> http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/kindle_to_feature_new_tools_for_blind_visually_impaired.html >> >> and here's some of the older (November 2009) criticism of the >> Kindle's >> text-to-speech access from geek.com: >> http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/kindle-dx-text-to-speech-access-criticized-20091111/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
