"Affected titles include works by Toni Morrison, Stephen King,
and others. Other notable titles include Andrew Meachem's American
Lion, and five of the top ten Random House best-sellers in the
Kindle store. As a former English major, a teacher, and a lover of
books, I can't see how anyone can justify eroding access to popular
and classic literature.]
"A little-known fact: in my non-IP life, I'm a bit of an
education wonk. My mother was a high school English teacher for 30
years, and I work as a part-time SAT and Writing tutor. I
specialize in working with dyslexic, ADD/ADHD, and other
reading-disabled students--and so, on both personal and
professional levels, I am appalled by the backwards approach to
equal access espoused by the Author’s Guild during the recent
Kindle 2 debacle.
"While the Guild claims that they should have the right to
selectively block the text-to-speech (TTS) function on the Amazon
Kindle 2--due to the "added value" it automatically provides to
their work--their response has served to do little more than
exclude, alienate, and set back the reading-impaired
community."
