Comments on: Amazon cave: Publishers can disable Kindle 2 text-to-speech http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-cave-publishers-can-disable-kindle-2-text-to-speech-0236010/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Essel http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-cave-publishers-can-disable-kindle-2-text-to-speech-0236010/#comment-58584 Mark Essel Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:36:34 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=36010#comment-58584 While it’s a lovely device due to the readability, storage, size, and efficiency. The Kindle 2 is still subject to the whim of the Author’s Guild it seems, and therefore any information that flows through the device will be ruled by a consortium of folks with an outdated view on media ownership and control.

Publishers will control the text-to-speech feature.

This type of feature change after the release of a product is frightening or at the very least damaging to Amazon’s market position for it’s Kindle Books.

It amazes me that we are finding new ways to value information for it’s pertinence, quality, and timeliness on the internet but our vast riches of older written information must suffer in it’s availability due to old thinking.

I suggest a simple solution, one media rule that rewards any media authors based on the popularity of their works as well as sociably redeeming qualities. The capitol can be generated via ads to free users, or by subscriptions to those that prefer to avoid ads.

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