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Old 02-02-2010, 05:15 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by mcl View Post
Huh?

The TTS issue was a ridiculous legal issue raised by the Writer's Guild, claiming that TTS constitutes a "public performance". And then pressed by the publishers, Amazon caved. They were between a rock and a hard place, with the interest groups for the blind and the ADA, the WG, and the publishers.

The "1984" fiasco, while handled poorly, dealt with an illegal sale of the work.
What I am trying to say is that Amazon executed about the poorest public relations skills possible in each of the three cases. for each one, there would have been several better options. Ergo, failure to understand the market.
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