Possible legal issue with text to speech

[Chris]

Publishers better learn who the customer is REALLY, REALLY, soon.  The music industry got their head handed to them over the last few years for pulling stunts like this.  They try to defend what they have instead of understanding the evolution of their customer base.

I predict in the future that with technology like internet, iTunes, Kindle...  the publishers will get squeezed out of existence as the authors and customers become more connected.

The publishers better wakeup and recognize the changes in the industry or Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Newspapers, etc. will be quaint, distant memories to our children.

I am sure the buggy whip manufacturers figured CARS were just a fad.....

Chris

[Betsy the Quilter]

This kind of crazy stuff would never happen in Hibbing.

Sorry...  I just haven't seen Hibbing appear in a thread lately.


And I wonder if HUGH reads books out loud

You're darn tootin' it would never happen in Hibbing.  Minnesota people are too down to earth and practical.  (Comes of dealing with all that snow--no time for frivolous pursuits unless it's ice fishing.)  Thanks for mentioning that, Kim!

And I'm sure Hugh reads aloud, he's got kids!

Betsy

[Vampyre]

the hot coffee suit.

I need one of those in a 48 long with cream and sugar. 
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[Chad Winters]

I need one of those in a 48 long with cream and sugar. 
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I think you're looking for the Coffee and Tea thread

[Vampyre]

Are there Tea Suits?  I like tea and I don't like coffee at all.

[ProfCrash]

Are there Tea Suits?  I like tea and I don't like coffee at all.

mmm tea. I am having a pot of Bossa Nova right now. Oolong with vanilla. So yummy.

I think the Authors Guild is freaking out because the Kindle is more affordable then smiliar technologies and will be used by people who are able bodied. I think they ignored the text to speech devices that exist and are used for people with disabilities that make reading difficult or impossible because it would have been bad form to sue something manufactured for the blind or dyslexic.

The Kindle is mass produced and can be used by everyone. Now text to speech becomes a bigger issue because it is not a targeted audience of disabled individuals. I can see were that would be scary to the Authors Guild.

[Vampyre]

With the number of people in the US that actually read for leasure so low, you'd thing the greedy fools would be grateful for anything that got more books sold.

[Chad Winters]

like anyone is going to buy the audiobook and the book. Do they really think they are losing sales?