Shell I believe that is the situation at present. No sign of it coming over here as yet. I have to say that I have some sympathy with the authors. If they feel that their audio book sales will be hit, then they should be compensated, but this should be done by giving them a greater slice of the pie, rather than the main profits going to the booksellers and publishers. I am possibly arguing against accessible books here, but I would not want authors to lose out because I need to read the books they write. -----Original Message----- From: electrobooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:electrobooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shell Sent: 01 April 2009 20:54 To: electrobooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [electrobooks] kindle. I've sort of lost track of what has happened now. I know Amazon said they would leave it up to individual authors and publishers as to whether text to speach was included on each book seperately, so is that it now? Shell. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1886 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3981 (20090401) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com