TTS will never match the high quality readings of audiobooks. Thus the function is not a threat to my buying audiobooks. I buy several dozen annually and would continue to do so as I actually enjoy hearing a book I have read performed by every talented individuals.
I simply do not see how TTS is any different than other forms of format shifting, which is generally legal in the US, right?
Maybe next they need to go after those evil mom's & dads who read to their kids at night before bed. After all, they too as performing a printed and copyrighted work without paying a fee to do so. The way this all sounds publishers feel books are only to be read quietly by one person then thrown away because they also want to criminalize the used book market as well, let alone the evil librarians and their story hours, heck Border's still have story times for kids where someone reads a book to them in the store. That is a performance, right?
btw, that was all mostly sarcasm at the ludicrous stance of the publishers, and yes some of the authors as well, save for one or two shining examples around here.
