Kindle Talk Is NOT an Audiobook
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 03:51PM Neil Gaiman weighed in on the issue of the Kindle being a "danger" to audiobooks. Below is an excerpt from his blog:
"As I said first time out, and this is speaking as someone who loves audiobooks, records his own audiobooks, makes a not-insignificant portion of his income from audiobooks and has even won awards for bloody audiobooks... To repeat myself -- I think any money that could be spent on legal bills trying to stop people listening to books (or to anything still in copyright) using the text-to-speech functions on their computers, iPhones, Kindles, Androids etc, would be infinitely better used to promote audiobooks, to tell people there are fine audiobooks out in the world, that there are great books and great readers, and that the experience of listening to a book is a wonderful one. Promote the Audie awards. Get the word out."
I couldn't agree more. For Neil's complete post, go here.



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