Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. Authorized entities need access to digital content in order to cost-effectively deliver access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

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. It’s easy to dismiss the authors’ concerns (as many have in the tech community) as greedy or Luddite.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates. In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few people want to read a 388-page book online, and I've received several notes from people who checked out the online version and then decided to buy a physical or ebook copy. But I did choose Noncommercial because I don't want a publisher to snap up the book or a chapter, credit me as author, and sell the content. How Did I Do It?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. About the Author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The authors present a two-by-two matrix. As the author William Gibson famously noted, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” The first was the ebook. These formats now underpin the ebook industry of today. The second key concept explores what a social entrepreneur is and isn’t.

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