Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2's read-aloud feature - Los Angeles Times - Alana Semuels - Feb 28 09 - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 28 Mar 09Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader. Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device's controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature for individual titles.