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Liviu_5 · 02-25-2009, 11:53 AM

This ending quote from the NYT article above - nice find btw, begs the question why????:

"For the record: no, the Authors Guild does not expect royalties from anybody doing non-commercial performances of “Goodnight Moon.” If parents want to send their children off to bed with the voice of Kindle 2, however, it’s another matter."

Text to speech software is perfectly legal, what's the problem of adding it on the Kindle?

I truly would love Authors Guild to get Amazon to court for this, get smacked badly and learn their lesson once and for all; or even better snub Amazon on the theory that better unread and unknown, than gaaaasp people would dare to take advantage ...

Sometimes confronting reality takes hitting your head on the wall repeatedly until you cannot take it and decide the wall *is* there after all

02-25-2009, 11:53 AM	#97
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	This ending quote from the NYT article above - nice find btw, begs the question why????: "For the record: no, the Authors Guild does not expect royalties from anybody doing non-commercial performances of “Goodnight Moon.” If parents want to send their children off to bed with the voice of Kindle 2, however, it’s another matter." Text to speech software is perfectly legal, what's the problem of adding it on the Kindle? I truly would love Authors Guild to get Amazon to court for this, get smacked badly and learn their lesson once and for all; or even better snub Amazon on the theory that better unread and unknown, than gaaaasp people would dare to take advantage ... Sometimes confronting reality takes hitting your head on the wall repeatedly until you cannot take it and decide the wall is there after all Last edited by Liviu_5; 02-25-2009 at 11:56 AM.