Soundproof books
Amazon's Soundproof Kindle books
Submitted by James Love on 14. June 2009 - 1:00In a 2002 article on "The Soundproof Book," George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman explored the exclusionary impact of books with text-to-speech disabled.* In 2008, Amazon began to disable text-to-speech in thousands of Kindle editions of ebooks. Below are examples of the new Amazon soundproof books.
[*George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman, "The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities," First Monday, Volume. 7, Number 6 - 3 June 2002.]
Soundproof books
Submitted by James Love on 17. May 2009 - 11:41I spent a few minutes today on Amazon, to check on reports that some Kindle titles now have text to speech disabled. Among the authors who are “turning off” text to speech in Kindle editions of books are President Obama, Vice President Biden, Toni Morrison, the Pope, Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Mother Teresa, Isaac Asimov, Tom Brokaw, P.D. James, Robert B. Reich, George Will and Ann Coulter, to mention a few.
