Amazon eat the humble pie it was offered by the Authors Guild and now gives the author a way to opt in and opt out of the text to audio / speach feature of the Kindle 2.
I still hope it was meant as a joke by Amazon and help to open the eyes of the industry.
via / more on Lawrence Lessig Blog
Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again)
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Way back behind the good, old pBooks days!
I don't steal books. But, if the future of digital book distribution looks like this, I either have to quite reading and working with book altogether (no, I'm not willing to go back to paper) or I have to ignore, misuse and/or pirate such eBook content.
