In a rare concession, Amazon is “modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title-by-title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title. We have already begun to work on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice. With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled.” Of course at the same time the etailer reasserts that the “experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and […]
