The Blind Respond to the Author’s Guild Kindle Position
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Digital Camera Ratings News
One of the Amazon Kindle's really cool features is the built-in text to voice service, which allows people to consume the books they've purchased in situations where they can't read. One group that is particularly interested in this feature is the blind, which benefit from greater access to books. However, the Author's Guild has opposed this technology under the theory that this could cut into the sales of audio books. To me, this sounds ridiculous because the quality of a computer reading a
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