{"id":5044,"date":"2010-03-14T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2010-03-14T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:49:34","slug":"text-to-speech-does-not-an-audio-book-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"Text-to-speech does not an audio book make&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for a <a title=\"Text-to-speech and iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/apple\/will-the-ipads-text-to-voice-ebook-feature-cause-issues-with-book-publishers-20100313\/ \" target=\"_self\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> to a story at the <strong>geek.com<\/strong> that expands on the debate about the text-to-speech function that we mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post about <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong> features.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently some authors and publishers are making the case that such an auditory expression of eBooks can be considered as &#8220;derivative work&#8221; and should entitle them to royalties.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a stretch. Wouldn&#8217;t that only apply if you recorded the text-to-speech version and tried to sell it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Jorgen for a link to a story at the geek.com that expands on the debate about the text-to-speech function that we mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post about Apple iPad features. Apparently some authors and publishers are making the case that such an auditory expression of eBooks can be considered as &#8220;derivative work&#8221; and should entitle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5044\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}