Seven U.S. publishers sued Amazon.com Inc.'s audiobook subscription service, Audible, over allegation of the audiobook subscription service's copyright law violation through its planned offering of Audible Captions, a feature that captions some audiobook titles real-time, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Audible Captions will allow users to view machine-generated text while they listen to audiobooks. The publishers are include Penguin Random House LLC, Simon & Schuster Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Macmillan, Hachette Book Group Inc., Chronicle Books LLC and Scholastic Corp.
Additionally, the publishers argue that Audible Captions was subject to error, and that the proposed text presentation would hurt their reputation as well as the authors'. They are asking the court to block the captioning services and are seeking damages.
