Comments on: Turning Kindle TTS off hurts Random House – An Analysis

By: Chris D

Chris D — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:39:51 +0000

I’ve taken to emailing the publisher every time I would have purchased an e-book from them but did not because text to speech was disabled. Saying “I would like to politely inform you that you have lost $X.XX by disabling TTS on “Insert book title and author here.” If enough people join me in this endeavor maybe they will get the point.

For example I just read 3 Frank Herbert books in 2 weeks using text-to-speech at work and in my car, all of which where purchased legally through Amazon. I need a break from the Dune series and I was planning on reading some Phillip K. Dick, however I found that TTS had been disabled on all of his books and now I will simply find something else to read.

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By: tomlinton

tomlinton — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:07:40 +0000

Random House turns off TTS
I turn off Random House