links for 2009-02-26

Is the Kindle 2 destined for a future launch in Europe, despite the complexities of dealing with wireless carriers in so many countries?

In yesterday's New York Times, Author's Guild president Roy Blount Jr. rails against the Kindle's text-to-speech feature, opining that it infringes copyright because it provides a "derivative work" by creating audio editions of your textfiles. Blount says that eventually, text-to-speech will be so darned perfect, the audiobook market will be destroyed by it, so he aims to do something about it right now.