Amazon Yields to Authors' Criticism of Kindle Audio

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Don't own a Kindle but don't understand how it can be much different than Adobe reader's ability to read text or Microsoft"s for that matter. Artists and writers tend to be a pretty liberal group. Why does cutting off a reading tool that can be used by the blind, appeal to them? Maybe they are only liberal with other peoples money.

JIM of FL 11:26AM March 01, 2009

It's kind of nutty to think the Kindle feature will cut into audio book sales. All the Guild is doing is punishing the people who buy books for the Kindle. Nobody is going to want to listen to an audio book on the Kindle. It'd drain the battery in record time. But having the ability to switch to speech when driving or cooking or whatever was a wonderful feature and one that would keep people buying and enjoying books. The Guild couldn't be more wrong-headed in this move. To turn off the feature for an author's titles will be to limit that author's potential to sell more books. I know I'll be by-passing the titles that don't allow TTS, and I doubt I'm alone in that. And I would never be contributing to audio book sales, so it's a lose/lose situation for authors and readers.

Animee of OH 9:41PM February 27, 2009