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Originally Posted by rhadin
That is not what he is saying. There is a difference. The difference is as simple as this: Most ebooks cannot be read by your PC using text-to-speech because the DRM (or something else) TURNS OFF that capability. You have to purchase a specific product with audio rights.
In contrast, he says, Amazon TURNS ON the audio capability in every ebook it sells for the Kindle, but Amazon has not paid for or negotiated the right to do so. It simply has done so as part of its converting ebooks for the Kindle.
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Actually, I don't agree that this is what he is saying. For what it is worth, I just tried a random sampling of about 20 of my e-books (current mainstream titles) purchased from various sources and every one was able to be read by my computer. No DRM shut it off.