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Tag Archives: Author’s Guild
Amazon and Contracts
Authors Guild: Contracts Forced Amazon to Flip on Kindle is an article on CNet.com in which the Authors Guild asserts that Amazon turned off the Kindle’s Text-to-speech function (unless authorized by a book’s publisher) due to contractual obligations, not pressure … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Licensing, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Author's Guild, Contracts Authors Guild, Kindle, spokesperson, text-to-speech
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Voice of the Kindle
The impending release of the Kindle 2 wireless reading device has been all over the news this week, accompanied by many reviews and commentaries. One response to a new feature strikes me as extreme, however: “Some publishers and agents expressed … Continue reading