text-to-speech

Thanks to the ubiquity of Kindles and iPads, the publishing industry must address one of the thorniest issues of digital readers: How do they protect their books from pirates without alienating loyal customers who just want to read their e-books?

One intriguing feature of Amazon's new Kindle 2, which was unveiled recently, is text-to-speech. The digital reading device is capable of reading, in a variety of synthetic voices, any text shown on the display. This has sparked a controversy in the publishing community because audiobooks have...