Authors Guild Still Tilting at Text-To-Speech Windmill
Infingement. That's what Blount called Amazon's text-to-speech feature.Roy Blount, Jr., president of the Authors Guild, wrote an op-ed in the NYT today about the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature. Heavens to Betsy - we're still talking about this? I'm a writer. I'm writing a book. I want lots of sales and money. But I understand that technology is moving far faster than Blount and his buddies care to accept. The text-to-speech function on the Kindle 2 is just one of the features that will be included in an ebook reader from now until the end of time - it will never make sense not to embed one in the future. It doesn't infringe on audiobook sales unless you're crazy and dedicated enough to record the Kindle reading an entire book and then copy that MP3 file onto an iPod. At that point you can theoretically say you're creating a homebrew audio book.
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