Comments on: TTS is now being disabled on the Kindle by publishers http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/15/tts-is-now-being-disabled-on-the-kindle-by-publishers/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brad http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/15/tts-is-now-being-disabled-on-the-kindle-by-publishers/comment-page-1/#comment-1057903 Brad Fri, 15 May 2009 17:59:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21908#comment-1057903 Good job publishers! Keep alienating different segments of your customer-base and pretty soon you won't have any customers left. I honestly think that we're going to have to see action from Congress in the form of new/revised laws regarding digital content to see any significant change. It's becoming painfully obvious that publishers, and even Amazon, aren't willing to make the changes themselves. Good job publishers! Keep alienating different segments of your customer-base and pretty soon you won’t have any customers left.

I honestly think that we’re going to have to see action from Congress in the form of new/revised laws regarding digital content to see any significant change. It’s becoming painfully obvious that publishers, and even Amazon, aren’t willing to make the changes themselves.

]]> By: Alan Wallcraft http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/15/tts-is-now-being-disabled-on-the-kindle-by-publishers/comment-page-1/#comment-1057837 Alan Wallcraft Fri, 15 May 2009 16:23:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21908#comment-1057837 There is an explicit DMCA anti-circumvention exemption for TTS in ebooks, and it almost certainly applies to TTS on the Kindle. If so, it is legal in the US for any Kindle owner to circumvent the TTS disable flag. The TTS flag is EXTH record type 404, and EXTH records can be deleted without removing the encryption from a DRMed AZW/MOBI. There is an explicit DMCA anti-circumvention exemption for TTS in ebooks, and it almost certainly applies to TTS on the Kindle. If so, it is legal in the US for any Kindle owner to circumvent the TTS disable flag.

The TTS flag is EXTH record type 404, and EXTH records can be deleted without removing the encryption from a DRMed AZW/MOBI.

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