[free-sklyarov] Topicality

David Haworth david.haworth at altavista.net
Thu Sep 13 00:14:59 PDT 2001


On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:33:16PM +0200, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:05:37PM -0600, Will Janoschka wrote:
> >    4. You may not read this book aloud.
> 
> can we PLEASE remove that point from this and any future discussions?
> it is factually incorrect and will only harm us.
> 
> 
> 
> for those who've lived in a box for the past year or so: "read aloud"
> is a text-to-speech feature, not a permission on bedtime storytelling.

I beg to disagree. The ability to have your book read aloud to you,
whether by a human or by a computer, ought to be an automatic right
and not a "permission" that a publisher must explicitly grant.

Dave

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David Haworth
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