Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec...
by accessibility1 on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:50PM
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Um... so... you do know that blind people can't see the printed page, right? This technology opens up reading these books to them out loud. Requiring an additional license for people with a disability is pretty disgusting. Right now, I can share any books I download with my spouse, children, etc. But if one of them was blind and I wanted to share with them, suddenly I'd need a different license just for them? That doesn't seem right. The author's not going to get any additional money out of us, we'll just not read their book.
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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec...
by matt_kantor on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:50PM
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FYI the feature being discussed goes the opposite direction: it takes audiobooks and transcribes them to text.
But your overall point still stands.