Thread: Amazon Caves on Text-To-Speech
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Old 02-27-2009, 11:32 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by cjschmidt View Post
I'm going to disagree...

This is actually a pretty slick move by Amazon. The Author's Guild wanted them to cave and buy them off. Amazon isn't giving them more money - they're handing them the rope the ADA & public opinion will hang them with. Once the mythical AI supercomputer is built that can perfectly understand & read literature (and fit in a 1/3" device) - they can exercise their power. Until then... the first publisher with the balls to flag their content hates disabled people.
From the way the press release is written, I think Amazon is going to flag everything by default.
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