and now the Kindle 2 ...but wait what about those audio rights?

"The Kindle 2 is a portable, wireless, paperback-size device onto which people can download a virtual library of digitalized titles. Amazon sells these downloads, and where the books are under copyright, it pays royalties to the authors and publishers.... BUT there’s another thing about Kindle 2 — its heavily marketed text-to-speech function. Kindle 2 can read books aloud. And Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights." So says Roy Blount Jr. President of the Authors Guild in a NY Times Op Ed piece today.