[A2k] Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader.

[Claude Almansi]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Mark Harris <mark@tracs.co.nz> wrote:
> Manon Ress wrote:
>>
>> OK, so I will NOT buy this device
>
> I wouldn't have anyway, as it requires getting all your ebooks from Amazon.
>

Ditto for me, but it would have been nice if Amazon had shown some
guts and solidarity with blind people by sticking for the principle
that computer-voiced text is not an audio performance, even if Kindle2
is not usable by a blind person anyway. They chose to cave in to the
Authors' Guild instead and that's very disappointing.

More cheerful news about e-book / true audiobook of Cory Doctorow's
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom free audiobook from Podiobooks"  in
his forwarded message below. And this http://podiobooks.com seems well
worth exploring for other audiobooks

Best

Claude


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From: Cory Doctorow
Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Subject: [Doctorow] Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom free audiobook
from Podiobooks


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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on Podiobooks:
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