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TTS on the e-ink Kindles got caught in the crossfire. People weren't buying audiobooks to read on their e-ink Kindles in sufficient numbers to justify the added cost of the audio equipment. With no audio capability, TTS went out along with it.
Amazon didn't exactly make listening to audiobooks on the e-ink Kindles all that appealing, the software was pretty rudimentary. You could only jump forward of back in 30 second intervals. And if you paused playback, waited until the Kindle went to sleep and then woke up the Kindle... the audiobook forgot where you were and started out at the beginning.
I would have paid extra for a Paperwhite with audio capability, but the software would have had to have been improved a bit. Of course, it would have been pretty easy to improve...
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