I've been looking at Kindle books for several months now, and I haven't seen any that weren't text to speech. On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Evan Reese wrote: > I just encountered my first Kindle only book yesterday. I'm wondering if > others here have seen any of these. With electronic books now outselling > hardcovers, it seems that this may become a growing trend. Why spend all that > money on paper, ink and shipping when you can just send out electronic bits > instead for a lot less money, and more quikly besides? > > Why am I posting this here? Because, unless Bookshare has agreements with > publishers, then there's no way for these Kindle only books to get on > Bookshare. So we could be in a situation where an increasing number of books > will be published in a way that will make it impossible for them to be added > to Bookshare. The one I saw said that TTS was enabled, but that is often not > the case with Kindle books in general. So what happens with a Kindle only > book with TTS disabled and there's no print version to scan for Bookshare? > > I presume that Bookshare knows about these books, so perhaps I'm worrying > over nothing. I hope so. > > Evan >