Kindle e-books and disabling of text-to-speech
Filed under: News | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
It has been revealed recently that book publishers have disabled the text-to-speech feature that is available for use on the Amazon Kindle reader. It means that owners of a Kindle will no longer be able to use their TTS feature to read the books from major publishers out aloud.
As reported from Electronista, the main argument from the Author’s Guild is that the TTS service violates author’s rights for audiobook performances, comparing the service to a ‘real, human performance’.
What this basically means is that, authors are after more money through royalty payments for the use of the service. If they don’t get this money, they feel entitled to have the TTS service switched off.
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I feel that the authors and publishers might run afoul of
the
Amercans with Disabilites Act on this one. It just sounds
like more greediness on the part of the authors and will
only generate ill feeling among Kindle users.