![]() ![]() This view seems very short sighted and greedy. It appears the concern raised is that reading a purchased book out loud would kill sales of audiobooks. That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” “They don't have the right to read a book out loud. The quote that Paul Aitken, executive director of the Authors Guild, gave to explain the Guild’s decision is as follows: ![]() Needless to say, many publishers never allow it, even today. When Amazon first created the text-to-speech feature in their Kindle devices to read purchased books out loud, book publishers and the Authors Guild promptly claimed its use was illegal and forced Amazon to make the feature optional for every individual book. ![]()
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