Amazon Caves to Snippy Authors: Kindle’s Text-to-Voice Feature Now Optional [Kindle 2]
We reported the Author’s Guild’s litigious anger about the Kindle 2’s text-to-voice feature, claiming it violates audio book copyrights. It’s an arguable position, but Amazon has gone ahead and caved to the literate man.
Amazon has backed down for the Guild’s comfort rather than for any legal motivation, since it’s pretty clear that a robotic reading [...]