For those of you who haven’t been following the Kindle 2 copyright problems, essentially publishers (and authors?) have been complaining about the text to speech feature of the new Kindle. Their claim is that including a text to speech engine is a violation of their rights as copyright holders under § 106 of the Copyright Act. From what I gather, their argument is that the audio reading could be a derivative work.
While there seems to be some good fair use arguments — in particular, it should be pointed out that text to speech software can in no way compare to a real dramatic reading — Amazon has disappointed me by backing down from the feature. In its new form, publishers will be able to elect whether or not their a book will be available to the Kindle text to speech feature. Better than nothing, I suppose.
You make me sad, Amazon.
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The buttons have been redesigned and relocating the previous and next buttons on both sides is good for righties and lefties The 3G is absolutely worth it. I don’t see anything for library books. That’s the feature everyone wants. Amazon should stop being shady not allowing EPub.
I’m still not sold on these e-book readers. The best books are real books. See I love to read the real ones but the cost of an e-book, probably a Kindle 3g wifi, is too not easy to resist. I read sometimes read when my husband is asleep. Not sure how many are backlit. Thanks for showing us these issues.
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