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Old 04-14-2009, 12:33 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by starrigger View Post
I've already told my agent I want TTS enabled. But I don't have any audiobook contracts. If I did, I'd have to study the wording to see if I could approve that without violating my agreement with someone else.
That is great news, Jeff I always felt you had a fair view of TTS. Yes, even though Amazon back off due to AG pressure that does not mean they are correct in their claim. I’m sure the when you get your audiobook contract, and I hope you do, you should not see any conflict.

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Anyway, here's the Authors Guild statement issued yesterday:
You know the more I read their press release the more I dislike them. Fools with blind greed that do not see a business opportunity in front of them if they see one. I guess they is why they are a “GUILD” and not a “corporation”.

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@Jeffrey--

Thanks for putting up the Author's Guild's press release. Until I read this, and spoke to an author about audio rights last weekend, I didn't really understand what was at stake with the TTS thing.

For an author it can make the difference between being able to put chicken and broccoli on the table, versus living on ramen. Now I understand better why some of them feel so strongly about this. The audio book rights are worth serious money to them.
Well just a couple points. First the eBook was purchased so that is putting “chicken and broccoli” on the table for them. Second a large majority of books do not have audio versions, Jeffery C. is a good example, here are some fine SF books without any audiobooks. So buy disabling TTS they get nothing since most authors don’t have audiobooks in the first place.


Do you listen too much to TTS? I do and I’ve listen to audio books as well I can tell you there is no comparison. The readers inflections and the background music give something to the production that will never be rivaled in TTS. The difference is as stark as watching Hamlet in a high school production and going to a Broadway production. While the high school production is tolerable it is in no way going to take business away from a broadway production.

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