Thread: Kindle: Text-to-speech disabling has arrived
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Old 05-14-2009, 09:08 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
It is true that Amazon doesn't make the decision about TTS, but that is not to say they are neutral about it: they own Audible, and they also sell audiobooks (CDs) on Amazon. So depending on whether it has any effect on their overall sales, they may encourage publishers in one way or the other.
I'm pretty sure that if they thought it would cost them audiobook sales, they wouldn't have developed the feature in the first place. Then they wouldn't need to bother removing it.
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