Association of Blind Citizens To Webcast Authors Guild Protest From NYC
Printer-friendly versionThe Association of Blind Citizens, ABC, will produce a live webcast of the Reading Rights Coalition, RRC, protest being held at the Authors Guild in New York City. The webcast will begin on Tuesday April 7th between 11:45 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. EDT.
Listeners around the world can access the web page: http://blindcitizens.org/live which has information and links for listening to the live event. It is recommended that you access this web page prior to the event so that you can install the Talking Communities conference web browser component in advance. A flash-based and mp3 stream may also be available at the above web address.
The Reading Rights Coalition is a joint effort made up of 28 organizations representing upwards of 15 million Americans who are blind or otherwise unable to readily use traditional print. RRC organizations and members will collectively protest the discriminatory separate but not equal stance of the Authors Guild as it relates to e-books and the Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech audio feature.
"The water company does not charge separate rates for the use of water depending on whether the consumer is drinking it or using it to wash dishes; it simply charges for the amount of water used. By the same token, an e-book is not inherently visual or aural, and to claim that reading it either visually or aurally should cost a different price is discriminatory."
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