Via TeleRead, here’s an excerpt of a letter that a collation of 9 disability organizations sent to publishers regarding Text To Speech (the highlights are mine) - We are even more appalled to learn that Amazon, under pressure, would henceforth allow publishers and authors at their whim to withdraw mainstream access to electronic books for those [...]
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Its much easier to understand why so many authors are giving away books for free if you take a look at the bestsellers in the Fantasy Section of the Kindle Store – #1 is Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, which is currently free. #8 is Royal Assassin, the next book in the series after Assassin’s Apprentice. [...]
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Here’s a list of some more free books in the kindle store, all of which are in the bestsellers’ list – The Wild’s Call by Jeri-Smith Ready. Still Waters by Kate Johnson. Book 4 of the Sophie Green Mysteries. The Keeper of Eternity by Devyn Quinn.
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In my last week’s sickness I missed this really good piece of news from the official Amazon Kindle blog – We’ve heard from many of our blind or vision impaired customers who are excited about Kindle 2′s text to speech technology. Some of these customers have asked that we make Kindle even easier for them by [...]
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The kindle edition of the first book in the series, Assassin’s Apprentice, is still available for free. It was so good that I ended up buying and reading the remaining two and here’s my review of the other two – The main things that stood out for me about the books were – These are the [...]
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