Kindle 2 vs Reading Disabled Students (Remote Kill Switch)

“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.”

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