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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
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.
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You are correct, that 'bastion of freedom' the Author's Guild fought against text-to-speech. Authors and publishers have the right to disable it on the ebooks at Amazon. There is no good reason for it to be disabled, nor should vision impaired and other readers have to break DRM to use it. I imagine it could be quite a challenge for a vision impaired individual to break the DRM of an ebook to begin with
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/e-books...ould-be-legal/