The MacJury couldn’t hear the evidence on the Kindle text-to-speech issue; they had to read it, since the Kindle will no longer support that feature for many audiobooks. Is this a case of authors’ rights being protected, or DRM-style thinking on the part of the Author’s Guild? The answers, the questions and the long-term implications will surprise you. Drawing on examples in movies, music and more, an in-depth discussion of the issues is delivered by:
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| Bryan Chaffin |
Peter Cohen |
Glenn Fleishman |
Ted Landau |
Keith Lang |
Chuck Joiner |
Links:
Bryan Chaffin
Peter Cohen
Glenn Fleishman
Take Control books by Glenn Fleishman
Ted Landau
Take Control of Your iPhone, Second Edition
Keith Lang
Keith Lang on Twitter
Skitch on Twitter
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UI and us – Keith’s podcast about user interaction
Amazon Caves to Author’s Guild; Muzzles Reading Robots on ReadWriteWeb
Courtney Love Does The Math on Salon.com
NOTE: This video is R-rated for language