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Originally Posted by doctorow
Just think about the Kindle text-to-speech feature and why it went AWOL. The majority of publishers hated the idea that something, anything, could take away something from their traditional market shares.
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I think the TTS issue was different. I think that suffered from the same thing as the Firefly TV show: Some executives not understanding what they had and making some bad decisions.
Libraries currently lend ebooks for free, yet people still buy ebooks. Netflix streams movies for a monthly fee but people still buy DVDs.
Not sure that this new thing will necessarily be any more of a game changer.