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New Kindle 2 drawing fire for assistive technology features

Amazon.com's new Kindle (an electronic portable book reader) has drawn some fire from some publishers and agents. Apparently they are worried that the new Kindle's feature of reading text aloud with a computer-generated voice is a violation of "audio rights" under copyright law. "An Amazon spokesman noted the text-reading feature depends on text-to-speech technology, and that listeners won't confuse it with the audiobook experience. Amazon owns Audible, a leading audiobook provider." To read more about this debate, click http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123419309890963869.html.

For a review of the Kindle 2, read http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340623,00.asp.

Posted by Susanne Croasdaile on February 13, 2009 5:25 AM |

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Yeah its not a bad one.. i read the review with the link u had provided me with... thanks anyways for it...

Posted by: Technology Blog | February 19, 2009 8:59 AM

Amazon to disable the speech to text function its new Kindle 2 ebook reader.
Amazon will probably not sell as many units since it has announced its intention to disable the speech to text function its new Kindle 2 ebook reader.
This is a bad move on their part..
The publishers and writers can disable Kindle 2's read-aloud feature.
Whats up with that?

Posted by: John McCall | February 28, 2009 7:44 AM

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