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The whole thing is just silly and really just a disguised money grab. Text to speech has been around for over a decade in computers, and it's been mostly ignored for most of that time too because while the voices are "listenable," it doesn't take too long for it to transform into a monotonous drone.
The truth they want to ignore is that Text to Speech is no more a competitor to Books-on-CD or MP3 than a skateboard is to a car. I can't imagine anyone listening to complete book via Text to Speech. People buy Kindles mostly to READ books. Certainly there are less expensive and more compact devices available if they want to listen to them.
Authors should get every dime coming to them, but they are coming off as sniveling pedantics here.
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