Sunday, March 1, 2009

Amazon lets authors mute Kindle books read-aloud feature (AFP), Yahoo Tech, 2/28/09

Via Yahoo Tech: Amazon lets authors mute Kindle books read-aloud feature (AFP):

"Amazon is yielding to concerns of authors by letting them selectively silence a read-aloud feature in Kindle 2 electronic book readers that hit the market in February.

The US Authors Guild had warned that the new Kindle feature could pose a "significant challenge" to the publishing industry and hinted at possible legal action by saying they were studying the matter closely.

"Kindle 2's experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and no performance is being given," Amazon said late Friday in an announcement posted online."

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/usitinternetkindleamazoncopyright

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