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Originally Posted by rhadin
Mr. Aiken has a very valid point. In many cases, even the publisher does not have the subsidiary rights to release audio versions.
As for the question about how stupid can publishers and authors be regarding this, the real question is how arrogant can Amazon be? Authors and publishers negotiate specific rights -- be they electronic, print, audio, geographical, whatever. The author owns the rights to all forms of his/her work until the author gives some of them up as a result of contract. Absent specific contractual rights, Amazon is not entitled to distribute audio versions of content created by someone else.
I've never understood why some people think they have an absolute right to whatever they want whenever they want it and however they want it.
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It doesn't have someone performing the works. It offers a program that reads in a computer voice. And that is something that can not in ANY way be blocked under US laws pertaining to the rights of the handicapped.
There is a conflict here between the copyright laws for authors and the rights of the handicapped. Under US law the handicapped rights trump those of copyright in this case.
Period.