Thread: Another opinion about K2 text to speech
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Old 03-01-2009, 09:11 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by ddiblasi View Post
As an author, and an author who has one of her books in Kindle format, I agree. It is not about Authors Guild vs. disabled. It's about copyrights, creative value, and authors getting paid (pennies to the publisher's dollars, and less than pennies to Amazon's dollars) for their labors. I don't intend to disable the audio; but will support Authors Guild as it tries to protect authors against Amazon -- not the visually impaired.
Let me ask you.. since you are an author. What exactly do you think you are loosing out here?

No one is going to buy an ebook to be read to them via TTS in lieu of a well performed audio book. Perhaps, you will loose out of the ebook sale if person can't use TTS on it. This is not going to be the primary way people consume these books.

TTS is available on pretty much any modern PC already. Why has there not been an outrage up till now?

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