Hi guys Well, as for me, I think I'll do business with one company that I don't have to argue with. You know guys, the one that has iTunes. I can get all the books I'll ever want to read from iTunes, and I don't have to argue with them. Regards Gigi
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Adie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Well I am not in the US either and I can tell you that the BBC has > featured a piece on the American Authors' Guild and their dog in the > manger attitude to this. > > Some authors have been mentioned in the course of this discussion. Can > any of them be persuaded to speak out against this publicly? Can we > start a Twitter campaign? Unless we all suddenly win the Lottery, a > court case would be difficult and adverse publicity for these people > may be another way of approaching it. You have elections coming up in > the US, could any candidates be persuaded to speak out against this? > How about letters to the NYT and so forth? Does anyone know any > journalists who might take this up? > > I'm sure many of us outside the US would be happy to follow up in our > respective countries in any way we can. > > Do you know, I remember hearing of the Kindle and how many books would > be available through it and that it would make such a huge difference > to most of our lives overnight, I was literally, bouncing up and down > with excitement. Believe me, that doesn't happen very often. Seems to > me that the dashing of hopes is one of the cruellest things you can do > to people. Hope they sleep nights. > > Best > > Adrienne > > > > Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Esther, >> Two questions. >> Does the author's guild have statistical evidence that the average mac >> product user even knows that voiceover is there let alone that they would >> opt for this behavior? >> I might point out that audiobooks, commercial ones were not created for the >> vision challenged population, but for the general public, so the argument -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
