Posted by David Post: Amazon Caves on Kindle: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_01-2009_03_07.shtml#1236002986
Amazon has [1]modified its new Kindle 2, the subject of a somewhat over-heated copyright dispute that [2]I commented on earlier, so that its new "text-to-speech" functionality will be enabled/disabled at the option of the publisher -- i.e., that each publisher will get to decide for itself, when licensing books for Kindle sale, whether to allow it to be "spoken" through the S-2-T processor or not. Not good news for the consumer, it seems to me -- although if Amazon makes it clear, when you're purchasing Kindle books, whether the S-2-T functionality works or not on that particular title, it's probably a wash for most of us [though not for the blind or the partially blind -- they lose, in this deal] [thanks to Tom Hynes for the pointer] References 1. http://i.gizmodo.com/5162143/amazon-caves-to-snippy-authors-kindles-text+to+voice-feature-now-optional 2. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_02_15-2009_02_21.shtml#1235230368 _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
