Wk7: Blog - "Kindle Me a Story, please"

After reading each one of the articles which focused mainly on the new Kindle 2 with the new "read aloud" feature.  These articles also had a lot of controversy between digital and actual physical books.   The main concern with Kindle 2 was that the Kindle 2 isn't paying for anyone for audio rights. Kindles are the new modern and convenient way of reading and storing books. I.B.M has developed a computerized voice.  " These sounds can be incredibly subtle, even unnoticeable, but have a profound psychological effect. It can be extremely reassuring to have a more attentive sounding voice." according to The New York Times. I believe one of the issues of the new "read aloud" is to be the computer generated and that is taking away rights from the authors option to create their own personal audio.  Guild is trying to allow authors to get a share of the value that audio adds to the kindles and other tablets. Although guild is trying to help author's to gain a share of the profit, people are turning this all around and saying that guild is arguing that it is illegal for blind people to use because people who need alliterative ways to read only options are braille and audio. 
 I believe that this lawsuit is quite ridiculous especially if copyright laws have provided free audio available to the blind.  I think this whole lawsuit is people being selfish and just thinking of ways of making more money.  Other then the blind not everyone can read a book and know what they are reading.  Everyone has different ways to learn and understand what they are reading. What about people with disabilities or even those who are dyslexic?  I believe the new "read aloud" feature gives people the advantage to be able to have more options for those who have a hard time reading and want to but don't have the money to buy the actual book and the audio to go along with it. By giving the audio option I believe it ought to have people who have busy lives or people who don't normally buy books the option to be able to multitask so that would bring in more sales because of the convince.
In the tech dirt article Authors Guild's Scott Turow: The Supreme Court, Google, Ebooks, Libraries & Amazon Are All Destroying Authors states that Scott Turow is trying to attack Google with scanning book project. "Google says this is a "fair use" of the works, an exception to copyright, because it only shows snippets of the books in response to each search. Of course, over the course of a thousands searches, Google is using the whole book and selling ads each time, while sharing none of the revenue with the author or publisher." As the article fights back stating that the snippets sentences that google uses is that when the book is searched a sentenced is used and that sentence is usually the result of where you can buy the book.  Google book scanning is creating a useful card catalog for books, making it easier to locate the book. Google books has increased the sales of books. 
Overall I don't believe this is a legit case.  I believe the share of the older authors and publishers are afraid to let go of the past and they are scared to move into the modern world of technology because older folks have a harder time learning new ways of life especially if they grew up in a society where there wasn't such a thing as technology.