Amazon.com is giving individual copyright holders the option of turning off the text-to-speech capability within in the Kindle 2, the latest version of the online retailer’s electronic-book reader.
While insisting the feature is legal, Amazon said it would make the technical changes needed to let copyright holders on a title-by-title basis enable or disable the feature that reads the content to the user.
by Antone Gonsalves
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