Amazon's Kindle Deal burst with the U.S. State Department
The U.S. State Department has called off a planned million dollar business with the purchase of Amazon Kindle Touch readers before signing a contract. They wanted to explore the market and to check its own list of requirements again, the ministry said on Wednesday in a brief note.
The total order, which was announced in mid-June should include a value of up to 16.5 million U.S. dollars (13.4 million euros). The plan was that the U.S. government Amazon within five years will buy up to 35,000 Kindle Touch Reader including a 50 e-books. These should be part of a training program in use in libraries and resource centers. A few days after the announcement of the deal, however, fell to falter, an attached press conference with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not only held.
This could be because a protest of the U.S. Association of the Blind have been directed against the lack of accessibility of the Kindle: How could the voice activate exclusively via a menu system that can be operated by the sighted. U.S. federal agencies, accessibility is at the IT procurement but prescribed since 1986. The Federation of the Blind announced at that time, not flinching even before a lawsuit.
Over and above the note justification for the step, the State Department does not yet. The online magazine paid content a speaker quotes the opinion that after the withdrawal request again start a process that could open to all potential suppliers.
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