[Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Americans to Protest Amazon’s Push to Put Kindle E-books in Schools

[David Andrews]

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>Director of Public Relations
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>National Federation of the Blind
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>MEDIA ADVISORY
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>Blind Americans to Protest
>Amazon's Push to Put Kindle E-books in Schools
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>Date:   December 12, 2012
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>Time: 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. PST
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>Place:   <http://Amazon.com>Amazon.com Headquarters
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>    426 Terry Avenue North
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>On Wednesday, December 12, over a hundred members and supporters of 
><http://www.nfb.org/>the National Federation of the Blind will 
>participate in a protest outside of <http://Amazon.com>Amazon.com's 
>headquarters in Seattle.  David A. Paterson, the fifty-fifth 
>governor of the state of New York, will also be participating.  The 
>informational picket will raise awareness of a recent push by Amazon 
>to put Kindle e-books, 
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/video/misc_2012/kindle_on_ios-1.wmv>which 
>  are inaccessible to blind students, into K-12 classrooms across 
>the country.  The action comes on the heels of Amazon's launch of 
>Whispercast, a system designed to allow teachers and school 
>administrators to push Kindle e-books to different devices, 
>theoretically allowing the sharing of content among devices brought 
>to school by the students.  Kindle content, unlike some other e-book 
>products, is not accessible to blind students, even on devices that 
>are themselves accessible to the blind, such as personal computers 
>and iPads.  For more information about the protest or this important 
>issue, please visit <http://www.nfb.org/kindle-books>nfb.org/kindle-books.
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>About the National Federation of the Blind
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>and most influential nationwide membership organization of blind 
>people in the United States.  Founded in 1940, the NFB advocates for 
>the civil rights and equality of blind Americans, and develops 
>innovative education, technology, and training programs to provide 
>the blind and those who are losing vision with the tools they need 
>to become independent and successful.  We need your support.  To 
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