Kindle 2 Voice Illegal
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Written By: Hubert Sapot
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Paul Aiken, Director of the Atuhors Guild, complained that the text-to-speech function of Kindle 2 is illegal.
It was a copyright infringement Aiken says since the Kindle was made to be an Ebook Reader and not as an Audiobook.
Somehow Paul Aiken has a point, because it deems as the Kindle 2 useless in some way. Users could have gone and looked for an Audiobook rather than an Ebook if they are going to use the Kindle 2 for listening and not for reading.
There could have been a separate program for text-to-speech programs, but the problem is, it is a new feature that Kindle 2 has to offer. It makes reading and ebook a whole lot easier.
Plus this also puts a lot of pressure on the future manufacturers of Audiobooks since they already have a competitor long before they were able to make an audiobook.
This truly is something that needs to be looked into.
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February 12th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Would Aiken be comfortable extending his notion to cover devices that scan printed books and convert them to speech for the blind and partially sighted, I wonder.