[Volokh-announce] New post at The Volokh Conspiracy

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Volokh Conspiracy.  You can read it at:

http://volokh.com/posts/1236002986.shtml

It begins:

	Amazon has modified its new Kindle 2, the subject
	of a somewhat over-heated copyright dispute that I
	commented on earlier, so that its new
	"text-to-speech" functionality will be
	enabled/disabled at the option of the publisher --
	i.e., that each publisher will get to decide for
	itself, when licensing books for Kindle sale,
	whether to allow it to be "spoken" through the
	S-2-T processor or not. Not good news for the
	consumer, it seems to me -- although if Amazon
	makes it clear, when you're purchasing Kindle
	books, whether the S-2-T functionality works or not
	on that particular title, it's...