I myself own a Kindle Fire, I love it, it is amazing, and actually I had no idea that a Kindle could read books out loud, so I am going to have to check that out in a bit!
While reading through the links given in class I branched out and did a little of my own research and found this quote from http://www.georgeforce.com/?p=197
about the lawsuit "If this lawsuit goes through, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes illegal to read books aloud."
Basically the people behind the law suit "the guild" says that the computer voices that change text to audio will undermine the audio book market and basically all those famous actors and such reading those audio cds we like to listen to in the car will be out of work.
Amazon remains steadfast saying the books are properly licenced.
As for my opinion? I'm not really sure.
While reading through the links given in class I branched out and did a little of my own research and found this quote from http://www.georgeforce.com/?p=197
about the lawsuit "If this lawsuit goes through, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes illegal to read books aloud."
Basically the people behind the law suit "the guild" says that the computer voices that change text to audio will undermine the audio book market and basically all those famous actors and such reading those audio cds we like to listen to in the car will be out of work.
Amazon remains steadfast saying the books are properly licenced.
As for my opinion? I'm not really sure.
Interesting point that the lawsuit would affect actors reading audible books, but I think not. The point is that with the actor-read books there is a license which the audible book publisher must buy in order to publish them audibly. This is in addition to buying the rights to publish the book period. The Amazon folks have paid for the rights to publish the book as an eBook, text version, but the lawsuit says by offering a read-out-loud option, they should be buying an additional license, to produce the book audibly and they are not.
ReplyDelete