eBooks for the Visually Impaired From: Speech Technology Magazine - Sep/Oct 2011 - page 39 By: Robin Springer Kindle and other readers come up short; Justice Department pushes textbooks In recent columns, I have discussed Amazon and the Authors Guild’s disabling of text-to-speech (TTS) in Amazon’s Kindle. It was unclear the exact reason that the guild demanded that Amazon disable TTS, although the move probably stemmed from a concern over diminishing audiobook royalties. Read the entire article at: http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/eBooks-for-the-Visually-Impaired--77344.aspx Links: On Speech We Can Agree http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/On-Speech-We-Can-Agree-72975.aspx Speech Can Help Integrate the Disabled http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/Speech-Can-Help-Integrate-the-Disabled-69656.aspx Shame On You, Authors Guild http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/Shame-On-You-Authors-Guild-66803.aspx Shame on You, Amazon http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/Shame-on-You-Amazon-60422.aspx Speech in a Virtual World, Part II http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/Speech-in-a-Virtual-World-Part-II-56344.aspx Speech in a Virtual World http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Column/Voice-Value/Speech-in-a-Virtual-World-55189.aspx