It goes without saying that a computer reading text out loud - à la Siri - won’t sound anywhere near as good as a professionally voiced audiobook. Text-to-speech integration in technology is not mainstream enough for most people to consider as an alternative to audiobooks. If a customer searches Audible for a title they’d like to listen to, then discovers it’s unavailable, it seems reasonable to assume the customer will simply do without. Many more books are available for Kindle than are available through Audible.
Unfortunately, the library of audiobooks is much smaller than the library of ebooks. If a Kindle owner wants to listen to high quality and professionally recorded audio from a book, there are plenty of options available: the first which springs to mind is Audible, Amazon’s own audiobook service. 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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