You don’t know what you’re talking about. There is nothing illegal about reading a book aloud to others and it’s not illegal to play recorded music at church or too friends. If a commercial venue – i.e. nightclub – plays someones recording there are probably royalty fees due the songwriter, but there is nothing illegal about playing the song.

As for why Random House has taken this action, it is probably because they realize that a percentage of the population will run a wire from the headphones section of the Kindle to the microphone section of a pc and a sound recorder on a PC or MAC and then distribute the whole book for free and then doing to publishings business what file sharing has done to the music business’s bottom line.

Mark Markarian
Pleasantville, NY

Protesting about the costs is one thing but ultimately you affect all of us with an attitude like that.

Contributions are welcome :)

Let the 1-star flood for text-to-speech disabled e-books begin! :)

Anyone have a links list of the Random House titles that got TTS disabled?

You can therefore expect the following:

. Refusal to accept the indesputable facts as they exist.
. Breathtaking arrogance.
. Lobbying government and proposing hard time for reading aloud.
. Lawsuits against single mothers in poverty.
. Quietly purchasing popular sites and making them unpopular.
. Acceptance of the inevitable, but less-than-ideal solutions that still generate revenue.

We are perhaps 3 years from the last stage, so delay buying until then. Personally, I will never own a DRM-based product until my business depends on it, and i’d even rather buy my books from the seconds shop and recycle them back once read.