Just logging this for future findability

I can't believe it took this long for a protest to happen. This was the real issue regarding text-to-speech as I saw it. Yet the press notably failed even to mention it at the time:

You may remember a few months ago, when The Authors Guild claimed (falsely) that the text-to-speech feature violated copyright law, and forced Amazon to disable it.

Now, the people who would have benefited most from the new feature — the blind, and others with reading disabilities — have made it clear that they're not going to stand for it.

Well. I have to admit, I didn't expect this. I think UM Press should get credit for making a dramatic move. It remains to be seen how well their particular strategy plays out, but they have certainly made themselves a press to watch:

The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital.