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Originally Posted by kennyc
Incredible. Thanks for that. So I guess Amazon is going to have to confiscate all our Kindles  Or disable the tts. Maybe that's what the recent update did, has anyone checked?  |
Amazon can and does disable the text-to-speech on individual books when they are "ordered" to by the publishers. Even retroactively, after you've "bought" it. There are threads about it here on MobileRead that you can search down. The Kindle
could read
any of your books out loud, but you are restrained from doing so if the publisher doesn't want you to. Which is why I'd never want a reader tied to a specific store, and one where someone has access to it's contents. This is what I have been saying this entire thread-- TPTB in the entertainment industries are the ENEMIES of the general public, and having them making the laws is a VERY BAD THING.