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Originally Posted by Piper_
Yep.
It's also an obscene exception to the exception, IMO. 
There is way too big a difference in both the user's experience and publisher's investment between TTS and audio books to justify that. |
Totally agree.
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Originally Posted by Piper_
Heck, I think it should be illegal for them to use drm to disable TTS to begin with....
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I suspect the disabling of TTS is a "side effect" of the copy protection that DRM slaps on an ebook. It was a problem with PDFs several years ago - if it was created with security enabled, to prevent unauthorised copying of the text content, that disabled the ability of screen readers and other access software to access the content, making it impossible for a blind person to access it (the level at which screen reader software needed to access the content was the same level of access that was locked by the security feature). Adobe took a while, but they eventually sorted that out. Could be something similar going on with ebook DRM.