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He's absolutely correct that when computerized text to speech becomes good enough it will kill the market for audio books. Who cares? How many people are buying the same book as both an ebook and an audio book? If they are do the authors really think they should be collecting royalties for both sales? I'm paying for the content/story not for the technology method that is used to present it to me.
He should be embracing this new technology. Anything to help sell books. Authors are competing for entertainment dollars and should make it as attractive as possible. Amazon is doing them a favour by making it easier for the customer to enjoy the book. The Author's Guild should be working with the TTS developer's to make the experience better. Maybe they can add markup to the text to indicate inflection or indicate if it's a male or female speaking.
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