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	<title><![CDATA[People vs the Authors Guild, don't turn off text to speech in Kindle 2]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/people-vs-the-authors-gui_b_183533.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>As has been written about extensively in the press and the blogsphere, the Authors Guild has pressured Amazon to disable the text to speech feature in Kindle 2. This has set of a storm of opposition among groups that see the Guild's actions as harmful to access for persons who are reading disabled. Details are reported by the Reading Rights Coalition(<a href="http://www.readingrights.org/equal-and-not-separate-reading-rights">http://www.readingrights.org</a>) and by <a href="http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/03/31/authors-guild-kindle2/">others</a>. The Guild has issued <a href="http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/amazon-reversal-on-text-to-speech.html">this statement</a>, which has been widely criticized by organizations...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-05-07T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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