peachtess asked what I thought about the
Kindle2 Text to Speech drama. In brief, Amazon's Kindle 2 includes the ability to read a document out loud. The Authors Guild states that this falls under audio rights, and is therefore s a contractual violation, since audio rights are separate from electronic (e-book) rights.
Amazon has since backed down.I don't see this as a simple black and white matter where one side is right and the other is wrong. Authors struggle to hold on to rights; for those
Published on March 03, 2009 10:27