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Originally Posted by cjschmidt
@Steve Jordan
This is still a slightly different situation. No one is suing to force Amazon to add features that benefit the disabled, they are trying to force them to REMOVE a feature.
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I was just clarifying the Americans with Disabilities Act, to make it understood that it actually does not apply in this case.
I personally think that if Amazon wants to include this feature on its device (which, when you think about it, isn't much different than similar features in Adobe Reader and other SW), that's their prerogative. It is then up to publishers to decide whether or not they want their literature presented in that way, and not offer it to Amazon in that case.
This will be another instance of the inertia of traditional authors and publishers (and their contracts) fighting a true advance in the market... but I believe it will be accepted, and contracts rewritten to accommodate it, eventually.