[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kindle Only Books

  • From: Cindy Ray <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:41:45 -0500

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
>  

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