Authors Guild successfully kills Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature, it’s now optional for publishers
February 28th, 2009 link to (permalink)
Well done to the Authors Guild! Amazon revealed last night that the text-to-speech feature in the Kindle 2 will now be optional for publishers. The guild had been tenaciously fighting this feature, arguing that it had the potential to turn the Kindle 2 into a de-facto audiobook player.
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