Comments on: Amazon misread book sector on speech feature
Amazon botched the handling of text-to-speech. The retailer should have floated the idea past publishers before launch or at least been prepared to fight for the feature.
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- by JadedGamer March 3, 2009 5:05 AM PST
- Amazon are not caving in, they are parrying a blow and riposting: If their store is verbose about which Kindle books allow text-to-speech and which do not, they let the customers drive the market: If users of the Kindle 2 avoid books with such a limitation over books which allow the feature (e.g. blind users who chose the K2 because of the feature), more and more publishers will twist the arms of their authors to allow text-to-speech and Amazon will have won.
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