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Kindle Text to Speech
jimhines.livejournal.com - 3/3/2009
Kindle Text to Speech
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peachtess asked what I thought about the Kindle2 Text to Speech drama . In brief, Amazon's Kindle 2 includes the ability to read a document out loud. The Authors Guild states that this falls under audio rights, and is therefore s a contractual violation, since audio rights are separate from ...
wilwheaton.typepad.com - 2/26/2009
wil wheaton vs. text 2 speech
— wilwheaton.typepad.com — There's quite a dustup at the moment about an editorial the president of the Author's Guild wrote... in the New York Times , railing against Amazon's Kindle 2, which has a text to speech feature that he claims creates unauthorized derivative works and ... (more) wil wheaton vs. text 2 speech

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tbm.thebigmoney.com - 3/11/2009
The Kindle Revolution
— tbm.thebigmoney.com — Amazon announced the second iteration of its Kindle electronic reading device last month. The next day, HarperCollins... announced that it would close its Collins division to substantially reduce head count and limit the number of books it acquires to ... (more) The Kindle Revolution
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xkcd.com - 2/27/2009
XKCD.Com: Webcomic - "Kindle"
— xkcd.com — Grownups Centrifugal Force Angular Momentum Useless Bored with the Internet RSS Feed - Atom Feed Livejournal Comic... Feed: [info] xkcd_rss Livejournal Blag Feed: [info] xkcd_blag Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be ... (more) XKCD.Com: Webcomic - "Kindle"

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March 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Lonely but alas, there's much to be done... Congrats to the Spectrum Awards winners. Mark Chadbourn claims that Solaris Put Up for Sale. Darwin's Evolution interviews Anne Bishop. Matt Fraction and Michael Chabon on writing comics and genre. Jim C. Hines on Kindle Text to Speech. Check out the TOC of Mythic Delirium #20 (I won't mention the name Neil Gaiman). Check out Brain Harvest: An Almanac of Bad-Ass Speculative Fiction with story lengths optimized for mobile ...

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