{"id":2779,"date":"2009-03-04T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2009-03-04T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:16:01","slug":"amazon-and-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/amazon-and-contracts.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-10185538-1.html\"><strong>Authors Guild:\u00a0 Contracts Forced Amazon to Flip on Kindle<\/strong><\/a> is an article on CNet.com in which the Authors Guild asserts that Amazon turned off the Kindle&#8217;s Text-to-speech function (unless authorized by a book&#8217;s publisher) due to contractual obligations, not pressure from the Guild.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Amazon&#8217;s spokesperson was simply &#8220;Kindle 2&#8217;s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/confusing-assistance-with-performance.html\">previously<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/authors_guild_contracts_forced_amazon_flip_kindle\">LISNews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors Guild:\u00a0 Contracts Forced Amazon to Flip on Kindle is an article on CNet.com in which the Authors Guild asserts that Amazon turned off the Kindle&#8217;s Text-to-speech function (unless authorized by a book&#8217;s publisher) due to contractual obligations, not pressure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/amazon-and-contracts.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2919,2921,2925,2945,2962],"tags":[4088,4331,4808,4333,4807,4366],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-books","category-copyright","category-licensing","category-publishing","tag-amazon","tag-authors-guild","tag-contracts-authors-guild","tag-kindle","tag-spokesperson","tag-text-to-speech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-IP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}