Authors Guild smacks blind people in the face

According to Yahoo Tech News:
Amazon has added "a feature" to the new Kindle2 that will disable the unit's ability to do text-to-speech conversions unless the publisher OK's the unit to do text-to-speech.

While Blount is probably sleeping better, consumer rights advocates are considerably dismayed. The always-astute Lawrence Lessig offers an important history lesson on the subject, noting that in 2001, the very same issue arose over Adobe and its new e-reader -- which got downright silly when a copy of the public-domain, non-copyrightable Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was marked by its publisher is "cannot be read aloud." Is it a matter of time before this happens again?

Here, Blount is the head wiener at the Author's Guild and loudest (most annoying) voice against the text-to-speech functionality, "because it will take away from audiobook sales".
You can't take away what isn't there in the first place (because noone's bothered to read it), jackass.

So, instead of the Kindle2 being a great tool for helping cause more people to take an interest in more books, the blind being a group that would love to hear more books, instead Amazon caved and is now letting the author's guild (lack of caps intentional due to lack of respect) dictate even further what the blind can and can't "read" instead of letting the technology JUST WORK.