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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
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A group that represents authors is urging its members to be wary of the text-to-speech feature on Amazon's updated Kindle electronic reading gadget, saying it could violate copyrights.
The Author's Guild says the Kindle 2's "Read to Me" feature presents a significant challenge to the publishing industry because it could eventually undermine the market for audio books.
Guest: Nilay Patel, Engadget
Also mentioned on the air: Amish Hackers
I have had software that will read audio books to me for well over a year now. It is no competition to audiobooks because audiobooks are read by actors who bring the story to life whereas a computer voice is soulless. This feature is only of interest to those with partial, diminished or non existent sight and anyone who would try to take this away from them is selfish and bitter.
Posted by Ro | February 13, 2009 7:49 PM
The Kindle is like a convergence of old school and new school technology, new and old rules too
Posted by coffee | February 24, 2009 11:21 PM
