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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm wondering: how many people actually use that audiosync feature and how many use it with titles that *don't* offer a discount on the second format.
Also, has any other vendor doing both audiobook and ebooks found it important enough to match? Does Apple let you sync ebook and audiobook playback like Kindles do? Nook? Kobo? Non-Kindle android apps?
Clearly captions are useful to at part of the actual/potential market but is it actually going to cost any significant ebook sales?
Just trying to get a feel for the negatives of captioning.
Until we know if it is optional mandatory, or just for PD titles there's no telling how meaningful audiobook captions are. Clearly Audible thinks the tech is ready for primetime and as ADA protection but beyond that? Lots of unknowns...
For context, the Kindle DX lawsuit:
https://blogs.findlaw.com/injured/20...der-ada-1.html |
I have bought both formats at ‘full’ price on occasion (I spend credits which are worth about $12, so that is generally a steep discount over what non-Audible members pay). What also happens is I get the audiobook and then the book gets discounted to a point where I’ll buy it (say <$4). And Kindle Unlimited titles often have inexpensive audiobook companions.
Nobody else seems to do the immersion reading thing, and since Kobo, Apple, Google, B&N have one app for both, you cannot even play audiobook in background and follow along in text.
I’m not sure I am interested in captioning, so much as being able to have better navigation (basically XRay for audiobooks which would overlay an index where places and characters are mentioned so you could jump to those locations more easily). Anyone could do this, but Amazon is 90% there as they already sort of do that for immersion reading where there’s also XRay.
I think as long as there is no way to export the text it should be okay. Real-time Speech-to-text is already pretty good, and if it is just something that is tuned to the book in question so it makes fewer errors (say in spelling names and locations) then I don’t see how it infringes.