Update: I may be getting too excited; readers over at Teleread say this was already possible, and today’s announcement just affirmed that it will remain an exemption for the next three years. The Copyright Office is handing out a whole bunch of copyright smackdowns to big business today, with its formal announcement of a new [...]
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Sign this petition if you think the Authors Guild should leave the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature alone
The National Federation of the Blind has joined up with dozens of other organizations to form the Reading Rights Coalition, which is fighting for the right to use the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech function on any text without having to pay extra. You probably remember that when the Kindle 2 came out in February, the Authors [...]
Amazon caves to Authors Guild, allows publishers to disable "Read It Now"
Amazon gives in to the Authors Guild, and will let publishers and authors disable the read-it-now function on books.
Prez of Author's Guild makes his anti-Kindle text-to-speech argument in the New York Times
The Authors Guild has published an unconvincing op-ed in the New York Times that presents their argument against the Kindle 2′s “read to me” functionality.