Remember How Publishers Complained About Kindle's Text-To-Voice-Reading?
Well, Apple's iBooks can do the same thing, but there hasn't been nearly as big of an uproar.
As David Pogue writes in the New York Times:
"Now swipe down the page with two fingers to make the iPhone start reading the book to you, out loud, with a synthesized voice. It even turns the pages automatically and keeps going until you tap with two fingers to stop it.
Yes, this is exactly the feature that debuted in the Amazon Kindle and was then removed when publishers screamed bloody murder. But somehow, so far, Apple has gotten away with it, maybe because nobody's even realized this feature is in there."
Perhaps because publishers appreciate that Apple saved them from the evil clutches of monopolistic Amazon? Don't bite the hand that feeds you . . .
