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Article: Los Angeles Public Library Suspends Purchase of Adobe Digital Editions.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- October 20, 2009
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The Reading Rights Coalition (RRC), which consists of thirty-one organizations dedicated to equal access to the printed word by people who are blind or who have other print disabilities, announced that the Los Angeles Public Library system has agreed to suspend purchase of inaccessible e-books using the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) format. The library was informed by the RRC that ADE e-books cannot be accessed by technologies used by the blind and others with print disabilities, including devices that read text aloud or convert it into Braille (see also Reading Rights Coalition).
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: "The ...