date: 2009-02-13 08:02 subject: E-Book Rights Alert: Amazon's Kindle 2 Adds "Text to Speech" Function security: Public tags: amazon kindle 2, e-book rights, heidi ruby miller, the authors guild

I'm passing this along from The Authors Guild. It's lengthy, but worth reading for all writers, I believe.

"On Monday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reading device at the Morgan Library in New York. Most of the changes from the first version of the Kindle are incremental improvements: the new Kindle is lighter and thinner, for example, and Amazon eliminated the scroll wheel. One update, however, is wholly new: Amazon has added a "Text to Speech" function that reads the e-book aloud through the use of special software.

This presents a significant challenge to the publishing industry.( Read more... )