[IAEP] AP: Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it

[Luke Faraone]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 13:35, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, no text-to-speech on Kindle? Very silly. The blind will have to
> wait for the mp3 versions of books, then.


The Kindle has text to speech, but they allow it to be
disabled<http://news.cnet.com/amazon-retreats-on-kindles-text-to-speech-issue/>on
a book-by-book basis by the publisher. Most publishers opt for this,
in
the hope of boosting audiobook / playaway sales.


-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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