Amazon has caved to pressure from the Authors Guild, who indicated that it might sue over the text-to-speech technology in the Kindle. Amazon maintained that the feature was legal, but presumably dropped the feature for business reasons.
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The Ottawa Citizen's Vito Pilieci posts on the remarkable success of Guitar Hero, where Aerosmith has made more from its Guitar Hero game than any album that it has ever released.
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