With all due respect to Mr. Lutz, he was part of GM management for a number of years and never raised these issues publicly. To the contrary, he was reportedly resented by many GM employees for profligate spending, including using a helicopter to get around when one of GM's cars would have worked fine. One of his last positions in the company was running GM Marketing and Advertising, a position for which he was clearly unsuited, and which he should have turned down. His inexperience at marketing helped to pull GM into bankruptcy. My belief is that a manager has a responsibility to speak up if he or she objects to the way that their company is being run, and an obligation to decline appointment to positions for which they are unqualified. Mr. Lutz looks like a hypocrite--supporting GM management when it benefited him financially, keeping his mouth shut when taking decisive action could have helped the company to avoid bankruptcy, and writing a "tell-all" book that vindicates him and his actions, when he was a central player in the downfall of the company.

Last month, the US Copyright Office ruled that publishers must permit text-to-speech in eBooks, although they have the option to charge more for speech-enabled versions. The Copyright Office's rule will stay in place for at least three years. This is most likely the reason why the Authors Guild hasn't protested. Here's the link: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html .