According to a press release from the National Federation of the Blind, a call has been set out for protestors to rally outside Author's Guild headquarters in New York City on April 7th, 2009, noon to 2:00 PM, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 25-26, 2009.
Behind the protest is a group called Reading Rights Coalition, who are protesting the recent decision by Amazon to allow for the disabling of the text-to-speech feature on the Kindle 2, a wireless reading device that was recently released by Amazon.com. The decision to relent on the text-to-speech feature was apparently made after the Author's Guild voiced complaints that the Kindle 2 violated rights of authors and publishers.
New Line Press embraces reading - for everyone, and as long as text-to-speech is an option and not disabled, we will continue to allow the text-to-speech available for our books.
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Read Press Release from National Federation of the Blind
