http://freshtech2.com/2009/07/07/kindle-textbook-deployment-faces-stiff-challenges/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://freshtech2.com/2009/07/07/kindle-textbook-deployment-faces-stiff-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Wes Taylor Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:21 +0000 http://freshtech.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-168 While I have a great sympathy for the blind and sight-impaired, this is a bogus lawsuit. The ASU-Kindle text book program is an exploratory project to determine the viability of a text book distribution system using Kindle DX. If it is successful, it would mean that students could save substantially on textbook costs and not have to lug around those (usually) heavy printed books. Would the blind organizations ban all printed texts that were not simultaneously printed in Braille? The Kindle should not have to be redesigned to conform to the lawsuit before the feasibility of the concept is determined. While I have a great sympathy for the blind and sight-impaired, this is a bogus lawsuit. The ASU-Kindle text book program is an exploratory project to determine the viability of a text book distribution system using Kindle DX. If it is successful, it would mean that students could save substantially on textbook costs and not have to lug around those (usually) heavy printed books. Would the blind organizations ban all printed texts that were not simultaneously printed in Braille? The Kindle should not have to be redesigned to conform to the lawsuit before the feasibility of the concept is determined.

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