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Originally Posted by pilotbob
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?
BOb
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Who knows how it will be done? I expect that many authors (probably ones who don't have audiobook contracts, anyway) will request that the feature be enabled on their books. I plan to do that on mine.
BTW, agent and ereads founder Richard Curtis
commented on the issue today.
Regardless of one's stand on the issue, I think this observation by Curtis is true:
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Whether Amazon did or did not have a leg to stand on, the high stakes of a possible rights infringement on the interests of a billion dollar audio industry all but guaranteed litigation.
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He also notes that it wasn't just the Authors Guild squawking, it was the audiobooks industry, as well. (But perhaps less publicly?)