Authors Guild Claims Kindle 2 Text-to-Speech Somehow Violates Copyright
The notoriously litigious ink-lovers at the Writers Guild are mad at Amazon again—this time for the Kindle 2‘s text-to-speech feature. Apparently, Amazon is effectively stealing and giving away audiobooks, or something. The Guild claim, as printed in the WSJ: They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director…