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Originally Posted by khalleron
But Amazon's *intent*, as was stated in all the PR for the DX, is to replace all textbooks with a DX.
If the universities cannot find a way to accommodate the visually-impaired, they are violating the law in the US. The Americans with Disabilities Act *requires* public institutions to accommodate those with disabilities. To require students to use a device that is not accessible to everyone is actually illegal.
For your example, if universities required students to pass a music course, and required them to use a certain MP3 player, yes, they would be practicing discrimination and not only could be sued, but fined.
So, no, it may not be Amazon's 'fault', but the universities are absolutely doing the right (and legal) thing by dumping the DX in favor of the old print and braille technology.
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Just because a company states that they want their product to replace all other products in a category in their PR literature, doesn't mean that is their actual plan or that it will happen.
in this case, Amazon may say they want to replace all textbooks, it is very unlikely that they want to replace the braile books. That is a niche that Amazon likely doesn't want to mess with due to the high cost to income ratio. It is even less likely that Amazon could replace all textbooks with their Kindle DX.
Further, the university has already in place a method to accomodate those students with vision problems. If they didn't, they would not be able to handle those students that were already going to that institute. That means that there is no problem with the ADA regulations.