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Old 01-12-2012, 11:19 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by bigtext View Post
Do I expect this to happen to every book. Most definitely not. We do not have books-on-tape versions of all books and I expect rich media books to be an even smaller percentage of books than those converted to audio. Especially since many novels aren't going to work with this format.
That's a very good point. A combination of audio book and text version would be a natural evolution of the book as we know it today.

And a perfect model to take care our visually impaired brethren, text-to-speech tech is nowhere close to the real (professionally done audio book) deal.
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