With much criticism from publishers on the newly released Amazon.com's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature, Amazon.com has apparently backtracked on this feature now. Publishers had expressed concern that this text-to-speech feature will sidestep royalty payments. Based on these concerns, Amazon.com has supposedly allowed publishers to selectively  disable this feature, on a per title basis....

The Guardian reports that a computer game in which players compete to rape women and get them to abort their babies has been pulled from sale on Amazon.com. Rapelay, a Japanese “rape simulation” game which revolves around the premise of “hunting” down and raping a single mother and her two daughters, had been available via the online retailer’s US site until an investigation ...