Thread: Amazon Caves on Text-To-Speech
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Old 03-02-2009, 06:00 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by astromusic View Post
Folks, I think some of you are definitely over-reading stuff into Amazon's announcement. They were very careful to say that they will incorporate a DRM feature that will enable copyright holders to be in the "driver's seat" in terms of restricting TTS on specific books. They never said they will remove the TTS feature from Kindle 2.
Yes, but you are not thinking it through. IF the Authors Guild didn't want this feature because it would lose them revenue. And Amazon gives them a way to flag content to disallow the TTS feature. Do you not then expect that ALL of the content will be flaged in such a way, this making this be a non-Feature?

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