A coalition of publishers is suing Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, over a new feature announced last month that will display the text of a book to listeners while it’s read to them by their device.

That feature, called Audible Captions, is being challenged over copyright infringement by the publishers, who claim Audible is unlawfully reproducing the work of authors without permission.

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