Random House Shuts Down Kindle Text-to-Speech For Their Titles
And so it begins: Random House has switched off Kindle Text-to-speech by default, angering educators and advocates for the blind in the process. Forty titles have been shut down including books by Stephen King and Toni Morrison. Interestingly, Random House can start this process even after you’ve purchased the book on the Kindle , essentially shutting off functionality on products you already “own.” As we’ve said before: text-to-speech is not an audiobook, the Authors Guild is wrong , and even Wil Wheaton thinks this…
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