I am not entirely sure but I suspect that this has to do with the rights
management of the book.
There is or certainly used to be a property in the Kindle Book which
indicated whether it wasText to Speech enabled or not. Whether this was
the case was determined by the publisher, normally if they wanted to
preserve Audio Book sales for the book I believe.
This TTS restriction was over ridden by the Accessibility support for
Kindle built into iOS Android or the PC App with Accessibility Plugin VI
users could use Voiceover or Talkback to access the book or use the
Accessibility plugin TTS support. This was a small victory for
accessibility so a Book like Bad Science, which was not formally Text to
Speech enabled could still be read on devices with TTS with
Accessibility Support.
However as the Echo is not formally an Accessibility supported product
using Voiceover or Talkback but remains firmly in the mainstream I
suspect that the original TTS restrictions on certain books may well
still apply on the Echo. There is no way of the Echo recognising that
you are a VI user.
David Griffith
On 09/03/2017 08:23, Ian Macrae (Redacted sender ian.macrae1 for DMARC)
wrote:
I’ve just tried this David and Alexa told me that my most recently purchased
book is not supported for reading. /she directed me to go to the app to find
out which books were available. I wonder what determines whether a book can be
read?
Ian Macrae
ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx
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This may be old news but tonight I discovered that my Echo would read m my
latest books from my Kindle library.
I simply said Echo Read my Kindle book.
David Griffith
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