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Reading Rights Coalition Steps Up Criticism of Random House Over Text-to-Speech Function

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Two months after the National Federation of the Blind and eight other disability groups wrote a strongly worded letter to Random House asking the publisher to reconsider its decision to deactivate the Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech function for its e-book titles, Random House last week went ahead with its plan to disable the software, provoking a sharp rebuke from the coalition.

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Obama Beats Clinton (Wins Grammy Award)

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Barack Obama prevailed last night over two former presidents—Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter—to win a 2008 Grammy Award for the spoken-word recording of his book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Random House Audio, 2006). Obama received his first Grammy in 2005 for the audio recording of Dreams From My Father (Random House Audio, 2005).

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Two Web Sites Offer Free Public Domain Audiobooks

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The Web sites LibriVox and LiteralSystems have recently compiled online audio libraries of poems, short stories, and novels available in the public domain.

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