[Athen] athen-list Digest, Vol 194, Issue 7

[Kevin Price]

Michael,
I understand you wanting to switch from TextHelp R&W to Natural Reader but I don't agree with your approach. Companies must survive and that means sometimes they have to charge for their products and cannot always give them out for free, especially if they are trying to improve their product.  In a capitalistic society like ours we shouldn't be offended if a company changes their pricing.  You have every right to switch products, of course, but to be so offended that everyone in the post-secondary field needs to pull their support, I don't agree with.

Kevin Price, MSW
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University of Central Florida

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Michael Canale
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:01 AM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Athen] athen-list Digest, Vol 194, Issue 7

For at least 5 years I have had a free account with Read Write in order to show students and parents how to use AT for their studies.

Texthelp decided we in post-secondary are not important enough to support. I call all colleagues to call upon Texthelp of this change in policy is ridiculous. I decided to no longer support or endorse Texthelp products. Instead, I will endorse Natural Reader.

I know many of you use them, however, we should not support a company that doesn't support us.


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