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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I would like to see the heads of the Author's Guild say to a child who has disabilities that they want to take this feature away and you cannot have it and so we are going to make books less accessible to you. If they really did that, then I would urge every author who is a member who disagrees with removing the TTS from the K2 to cancel their memberships. In fact, that's actually a good idea.
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The Author's Guild has never questioned the right of the disabled to use Text-toSpeech technology nor has the Guild asked that it be taken away from the disabled. It is use by the non-disabled that is in question. More importantly, what is really being questioned is Amazon's assertion that when you give it ebook rights you also are giving it audio rights. This does not appear in Amazon's contracts with publishers and authors and is simply an assertion by Amazon. The Guild says ebook rights do not include audio rights and without audio rights text-to-speech violates the author's copyright.
Again, the dispute has nothing to do with the rights of or access by the disabled.