By now, we’re all familiar with the ongoing controversy surrounding the Kindle 2 and its TTS capability.

The latest development is that Disability Activists protested the removal of the TTS service from Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild in New York City.

For the full story, check out this link.

I, for one, don’t think the issue will be resolved any time soon.  As my Speech Brother Eric B. said earlier today:

“This one is going into extra innings and I’ve got season tickets.”

In yet another twist and turn of the ongoing flap over Amazon’s Kindle 2–you know the one, the whole TTS vs. Copyright Law Controversy–nine disability groups have written to US publishers urging them not to opt out of the TTS function on its e-books for the new Kindle.

The disability groups which including the National Federation of the Blind and the International Dyslexia Association said in a letter to Simon & Schuster:

“For a terribly long time those with print disabilities have been consigned to alternative formats with limited choices on expensive special purpose machines. Now that the opportunity for mainstream access to books on equal terms is possible, this community will not allow publishers and authors to deny them the right to read.”

Letters also went to Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group.

For the full story, check out this link to TechFlash.

For a glimpse at my Speech Brother Eric B patiently waiting for a fax, check out this link.