Leading Book Distributor and K-NFB Reading Technology Team Up to Deliver Immersive, Next-Generation Reading Experience
October 16, 2009 | Source: KurzweilAI
Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world’s leading distributor of physical and digital books, has announced a partnership to provide digital media content for K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.’s forthcoming e-reader.
“For every technology, there comes a tipping point when adoption starts to spread like wildfire,” said Ray Kurzweil, CEO of K-NFB Reading Technology. “For digital books, that time is now. With Baker & Taylor’s market leadership along with our cutting-edge 3-D book technology — and our combined and rapidly growing repository of online books from leading publishers — we believe we have the key to transform the book industry.”
K-NFB Reading Technology’s new e-reader will operate seamlessly on a variety of electronic devices, including personal computers, smart phones and cell phones. More information on the e-reader will soon be available at www.knfbreader.com.
K-NFB Reading Technology is a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies Inc., an innovator and pioneer in reading technologies and the creator of the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and the National Federation for the Blind, the largest, most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States.
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