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Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...zjOJwD9BT4BD81
... On the other hand, it will probably fuel the frenzy of publishers who think TTS will cut into audio book sales. This is a case where it can be argued that the change would definitely cost them audio book sales!
An interest group representing the blind is filing a lawsuit for discrimination over the Kindles-in-universities program.
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Don't have much to add, but that hasn't stopped me before.
It seems to me a lawsuit in this case is like two kids on a playground duking it out without actually having discussed what it is they are fighting about.
The link points out that Amazon is working to address the need for better access (TTS menus, a TTS on/off button?). Since it seems to be the publisher who has the final word on TTS, then the attorney gun (if needed) is pointed the wrong way.
The publishers certainly need to just get over themselves and get with the program, so maybe that's the point of the lawsuit. With Amazon happening to be the only one with an "ereader in Universities" program, someone feels the need to get the technology's attention right from the start and Amazon is the only one with a target on their back atm.