As has been written about extensively in the press and the blogsphere, the Authors Guild has pressured Amazon to disable the text to speech feature in Kindle 2. This has set of a storm of opposition among groups that see the Guild's actions as harmful to access for persons who are reading disabled. Details are reported by the Reading Rights Coalition(http://www.readingrights.org) and by others. The Guild has issued this statement, which has been widely criticized by organizations working on accessibility issues.
Nothing is more moving than the comments of persons who are signing the "We want to read" petition to the Authors Guild.
If you are as outraged as I am, you might want to sign the petition, but also contact directly the members of the Guild Board of Directors: http://www.authorsguild.org/about/board.html who are directly responsible.
The following are only a few quotes from the petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read…….
James Love: People vs the Authors Guild, don't turn off text to speech in Kindle 2
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