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MsAstoria · 02-28-2009, 03:32 PM

Direct from the Kindle forum @ Amazon: "As far as the author's guild director's suggestion of adding $1.75 to text-to-speech enabled Kindle books, I think that's insulting to us consumers and we should not give in to their greed."

Interesting. So the Author's Guild should keep a kick back fee for Amazon's software on the K2. I think they should have to had shared in the cost of the programming in order to share in the profits over and above their contracts with Amazon.

02-28-2009, 03:32 PM	#60
MsAstoria Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 47344 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Astoria, Oregon, USA Device: Kindle Fire HDX, iPhone (yes, I read on my phone)	Direct from the Kindle forum @ Amazon: "As far as the author's guild director's suggestion of adding $1.75 to text-to-speech enabled Kindle books, I think that's insulting to us consumers and we should not give in to their greed." Interesting. So the Author's Guild should keep a kick back fee for Amazon's software on the K2. I think they should have to had shared in the cost of the programming in order to share in the profits over and above their contracts with Amazon. Last edited by MsAstoria; 02-28-2009 at 03:34 PM.