The Guardian has an excellent post on the Amazon Kindle controversy. The Author’s Guild threatened legal action against Amazon because the Kindle’s read-aloud function “is not paying anyone for audio rights”. Neither does my sister when she reads books to my nephews, but I digress.

What a sad state of affairs, some authors seem intent on stifling a new technology simply because they are not squeezing out the last penny from users.


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Anonymous · March 2, 2009 at 6:09 am

Andres, Thank god for geeky, high-profile writers weighing in on the side of common sense. Neil Gaiman. Can we clone him yet?Anna

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Anonymous · March 2, 2009 at 6:09 am

Andres, Thank god for geeky, high-profile writers weighing in on the side of common sense. Neil Gaiman. Can we clone him yet?Anna

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