Authors Guild- “dementedly misguided” says Tim Martin
By Paul Biba
Once again a post from what is rapidly becoming my favorite newspaper: Here is a snippet from their Book Blog about the Authors Guild protesting against Amazon’s voice technology in the Kindle:
Another blow struck against the robot overlords by the Authors Guild, an advocacy body for American writers best known on these shores for its strong tradition of fighting the future. Past triumphs for the Guild have included suing Google over Google Books and encouraging its members not to link to Amazon because Amazon sells secondhand books: now it’s going after Amazon’s second-generation ebook reader, the Kindle 2. …
Clearly the Authors Guild wants to take a firm position early about the emerging technology, but this campaign seems dementedly misguided. If it weren’t, one might expect the first people to side with the Authors Guild to be Amazon, since, as well as manufacturing the Kindle, the company owns Audible, a download site which accounts for 95% of the online audiobook market.
Leave a Reply