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[Roger Sperberg]

David Haworth wrote:
> 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.

Long before there was the capability for computers to read a text aloud to
you, the audio rights for books were separated out as a revenue source for
publishers.

For many books, the publisher of the printed book doesn't own the oral/audio
rights and arguably would be violating its contract with the company that
purchased those publishing rights if the "read-aloud" feature were turned
on.

For other books, the publisher still harbors the hope that those rights will
be sold, and doesn't want to sacrifice the oppotunity for that subsidiary
income.

Rather than making the blanket claim that the author and publisher should
forego revenue opportunities, it would further your interest if instead you
worked to persuade publishers to turn this feature on for the majority of
books that will never have the audio rights sold.




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