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April 9, 2009

Maili’s Rant on the Author’s Guild Text to Speech Position

JailiLetters of OpinionAmazon / audio-books / Authors Guild / Kindle / Text to Speech25 Comments

Earlier today I read this report Photos and Video From the National Federation of The Blind’s Kindle 2 Protest at the technology news blog, Gizmodo, about a street protest held by members of the National Federation of the Blind against the Author’s Guild. As Gizmodo reports: "Basically the story is ... more >

April 8, 2009

Authors Guild Vies for Worst Publicity of 2009 (and other news)

JaneFeaturesAuthors Guild / Harlequin / Privacy-issues / Reader Rights7 Comments

Remember Authors’ Guild? You know, the entity that hauled Google into court so that it could create a settlement agreement granting Google a copyright monopoly that it hadn’t had previously so that AG could get a tiny piece of the Google pie?   Authors’ Guild, who allowed, as a part of ... more >

March 1, 2009

Why Amazon Was Wrong to Back Down from Authors’ Guild

JaneEbooksAmazon / Authors Guild / Kindle / Text to Speech109 Comments

Amazon unveiled Kindle 2.0 a few weeks ago and with it the announcement that the Kindle 2.0 would have the ability to convert the text to speech. This feature has been referred to as TTS. Almost immediately, Authors’ Guild voiced dissent over TTS. "They don’t have the right to read ... more >

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