Jamie Love of KEI has an important post on how Random House has turned off text-to-speech in all its Kindle editions in the United States.
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DRM and the Amazon Kindle
Lots of talk online about the ability of Amazon to brick the Kindle following claims of abuses of the company's return policy.
Reading Rights Coalition Mounts Opposition to Kindle 2 Decision
The Reading Rights Coalition has been mounting growing opposition to Amazon's decision to disable the text-to-voice functionality from the Kindle 2. Cory Doctorow writes about the issue in his Guardian column this week.
Amazon Caves on Kindle
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.
Hill Times on Net Neutrality
The Hill Times covers the growing lobbying effort in Canada around the net neutrality issue with news that Amazon.com has regularly visited Ottawa to discuss the issue, Rogers claims it doesn't block packets (it might have noted that it limits bandwidth for applications though) and Bell Canada implausibly claims that […]
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