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Kindle 2 has Text-to-Speech? Oh, the Horror!
March 27, 2009Fear mongering is alive and kicking in publishing central, with this installment coming to you courtesy of The Author’s Guild. Heeding the call of Mr. Roy Blount, Jr., we should be brandishing our pitchforks to the Kindle 2′s adoption of text-to-speech, a feature that reads an eBook aloud using an artificially generated voice. The Author’s [...]
Pirates & Authors: Working It Out, Together
March 13, 2009It’s Saturday afternoon in the hood: the sun is shining, the scent of pizza is in the air and your dog is begging you to take him out for nice game of Frisbee. But you don’t go. You are immune to that siren song because you’ve just surfed onto a website that lets you download [...]