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What Do Successful Associations Have in Common? What We’re Learning from the Associations Thrive Podcast

The MatrixFiles

The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. What are some of the themes that are emerging? Then, they act.

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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Me, I prefer audio books. Even though Apple has an easy way to get audio books in iTunes I don't do that. Instead, I get my books from Audible where I can get a $25 audio book for a credit that only cost me around $15 a month. Apple would charge me $25 for the exact same audio book. for e-books. for e-books.

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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Me, I prefer audio books. Even though Apple has an easy way to get audio books in iTunes I don't do that. Instead, I get my books from Audible where I can get a $25 audio book for a credit that only cost me around $15 a month. Apple would charge me $25 for the exact same audio book. for e-books. for e-books.

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What Do Successful Associations Have in Common? What We’re Learning from the Associations Thrive Podcast

The MatrixFiles

The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. What are some of the themes that are emerging? Then, they act.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. This isn’t a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!)

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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