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Old 02-27-2009, 11:30 PM   #16
cjschmidt
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I'm going to disagree...

This is actually a pretty slick move by Amazon. The Author's Guild wanted them to cave and buy them off. Amazon isn't giving them more money - they're handing them the rope the ADA & public opinion will hang them with. Once the mythical AI supercomputer is built that can perfectly understand & read literature (and fit in a 1/3" device) - they can exercise their power. Until then... the first publisher with the balls to flag their content is a greedy company that hates disabled people (at least, that's how it will look).
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