As I predicted, Amazon has come to a compromise with the publishers, and will now allow the copyright holder of any ebook available on Kindle to disable the speech feature.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
NEWS: Amazon yields on new Kindle 2 feature
A week or so ago, I showcased a legal argument between Amazon and audiobook publishers. The publishers felt that a "text-to-speech" feature in Amazon's new Kindle 2 that would read any ebook aloud infringed on the market of audiobooks.
As I predicted, Amazon has come to a compromise with the publishers, and will now allow the copyright holder of any ebook available on Kindle to disable the speech feature.
As I predicted, Amazon has come to a compromise with the publishers, and will now allow the copyright holder of any ebook available on Kindle to disable the speech feature.
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