Thursday, May 21, 2009

Publishers under Fire for Stopping Text to Speech on Kindle 2

Nine disability-rights groups wrote to publishers who sell Kindle ebooks, urging them not to disable the text-to-speech software allowing the books to be read aloud. Recently, Amazon announced the newest version of its electronic book service, the Kindle 2, featured text-to-speech software, but subsequently disabled the feature under pressure from the Author's Guild, which claimed the ability to have books read aloud violates copyright law.

Publisher Random House instructed text-to-speech capabilities be disabled on devices reading electronic books. Full Story available at http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/protest-kindle-drm

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