I wish the Author’s Guild wouldn’t put themselves in the position of complaining about everything new.
When the Kindle has a Text-to-Speech service that sounds like James Earl Jones, then I’ll start worrying.
What the Author’s Guild could do that would actually be helpful to its members is to set up a registry where authors can sign up, indicate whether they prefer to read their own books and whether they want to be considered for reading other people’s works, and leave a voice sample in a format that can (eventually) be transferred to the Kindle.
This will put a political and possibly legal burden on Amazon and audio publishers to look at the registry first.
The Authors Guild is warning its members that Kindle 2’s Text-to-Speech function is an unauthorized use of audio rights and may be “undermining” publishers’ audio markets. The organization today sent an alert to members and posted the alert on its website.
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