This is actually a pretty slick move by Amazon. The Author's Guild decided to be a--hats and Amazon called their bluff. Amazon isn't giving them more money - they're handing them the rope the ADA will hang them with. Once the mythical AI supercomputer is built that can perfectly read and understand literature (and fit in a 1/3" device) - they can exercise their power. Until then... the first idiot publisher with the balls to flag their content hates disabled people.
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This is actually a pretty slick move by Amazon. The Author's Guild decided to be a--hats and Amazon called their bluff. Amazon isn't giving them more money - they're handing them the rope the ADA will hang them with. Once the mythical AI supercomputer is built that can perfectly read and understand literature (and fit in a 1/3" device) - they can exercise their power. Until then... the first idiot publisher with the balls to flag their content hates disabled people.
maybe they'll have a special clause for "special needs" people. Maybe we just flash our handi card and get free TTS.
Amazon needs to worry about false advertising now as the device doesn't have TTS as a feature but it's an "Paid Option".