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Originally Posted by Conan46
What really offends me is publishers blocking text-to-speech, that seems unconscionable as it can be a very important feature for vision impaired people. That is a pure-greed move as they want to sell the more expensive audio book. Some people prefer text-to-speech vs audio book.
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The history was that authors rather than publishers demanded the right to forbid TTS (audio books were just taking off with downloaded MP3 rather than armfuls of cassettes). And US law allows DRM to be broken in aid of the registered vision impaired.