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		<title>Blount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed Page</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On today&#8217;s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author&#8217;s Guild, has penned a piece, The Kindle Swindle?, defending his organizations attack on the new text to speech (TTS) feature in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Over at O&#8221;Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount, Jr. on the Occasion of Him Speaking Like a Dinosaur, which offers good counterarguments on the issue of TTS and audio rights. My purpose is to point out his ingorant dismissal of the blind. In his words: What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle 2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal for blind people to use “readers, either human or machine, to access books that are not available in alternative formats like Braille or audio.” In fact, publishers, authors and American copyright laws have long provided for free audio availability to the blind and the guild is all for technologies that expand that availability. (The federation, though, [...]]]></description>
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