Comments on: Digital books in Italy: Reading Without Barriers http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=702 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: eric oyen http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=702&cpage=1#comment-6381 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:23:32 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=702#comment-6381 I find that I am in much the same position as my italian counterparts. there are so few available options here in the US that we almost have to pirate anything just to get something different. Unlike the EU and their massive Bureaucracy, the US is burdened with an industry that still considers the blind as a niche market with little or no buying power. that is rather wrong on their part as we, the blind, represent slightly more than 8% of the overall population of the US.

whats even worse, there are less than 90,000 works in audiobook format, less than 10,000 works in braille and e-books are locked down by the American Author’s Guild under threats of copyright infringement. This leaves me, and others, with very little alternatives except to either break the law to get what we want or petition an increasingly unresponsive government to get things done.

as for my level of reading… all I have is time, so I need to fill it with something.

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