Discovery Communications (yes, that Discovery) has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over the Kindle and Kindle 2, alleging patent infringement. They cite a patent granted in 2007 (though it sounds like it was in the works as early as the 1990s, per Paid Content), which covers all sorts of alternative delivery methods for digital goods [...]
I truly cannot believe that the Authors Guild is sticking to the untenable and astounding proposition that the Kindle 2 is infringing on authors’ copyrights because it includes a text-to-speech function. In an op-ed in the New York Times today, Authors Guild president Roy Blount says that the “quite listenable” text-to-speech audio on the Kindle [...]