Can anyone put me in contact with the author N. K. Jemisin?

Dear fandom,

I've been trying to find a way to contact the author N. K. Jemisin but the Word Press interface keeps giving me error messages when I try to post to her blog. Best way to contact me is through my livejournal account kestrell at livejournal dot com. Thank you fandom.

Edited mere moments later: Mission accomplished--thank you to the incredibly efficient avatar of fandom, you know who you are.

I'm not a pirate, I'm a privateer

Description of the icon I would like to have here: short blind woman with a white cane/sword and an eyepatch made from the page of a book.

Kes: I can't help but think that this ruling will only serve to further muck up the issue of ensuring that ebooks, including textbooks, are made accessible to people using adaptive technologies. Publishers continue to make ebooks wrapped up in DRM which locks out screen reader users, but it's the screen reader users who are being forced to break laws if they want access while publishers are still not held accountable for conforming to the ADA, twenty years old this week and still only kind of sort of a law.

Of course, you are going to have to be one of those blind hackers who actually knows how to crack the DRM, because this is not the stuff that most blind bloggers are going to be posting about (and being held legally liable for) on their personal or professional blogs.

Maybe we should organize a massive online pirate crack-in where hundreds of blind readers break the DRM simultaneously?

Article: Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are "fair use"

By
Nate Anderson
| Last updated about 2 hours ago

Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade
most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical
copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.

This time, the
Library went (comparatively) nuts,
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be "fair use," and letting consumers crack their legally
purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.

You can read the rest of this detailed article here
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars
but the part I want to highlight here is
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(6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized
entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
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