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This is great news! And will save me a ton of trouble because I often use both audio and a print version. Particularly at the start of a new book I find it helps anchor me in the story and establishes the characters in my mind. After a few chapters I usually choose one format over the other.
That would be great, especially for character names, places, etc.
I wonder what implications this will have for Whispersync.
Melanie♥ wrote: "That would be great, especially for character names, places, etc."Yes!
Good point about character names. Fantasy is especially hard that way, as the names are often unusual. Same with characters and places in countries where aren't familiar with. But generally, I use audiobooks at all the times of the day and night when I can't look at something.
I think that’s shortsighted on the publishers’ part. How many people are going to buy the ebook AND the audio. When I read both I get one or the other from the library...sometimes I borrow both or buy a cheap used print copy.
Janet wrote: "I think that’s shortsighted on the publishers’ part. How many people are going to buy the ebook AND the audio. When I read both I get one or the other from the library...sometimes I borrow both or ..."I often buy both and know many other people that do the same.
Janet wrote: "I think that’s shortsighted on the publishers’ part. How many people are going to buy the ebook AND the audio. When I read both I get one or the other from the library...sometimes I borrow both or ..."That is what "Immersion Reading" is. You buy an audiobook and a kindle e-book or text copy and follow along with the text while listening. I do this for most of the books I read. It's a feature on the Fire tablets, if you have an Audible title in your library you can buy a kindle e-book or borrow the kindle e-book title from a public library using Overdrive and they will sync together on the tablet. Now I won't need to buy an e-book or physical copy, or locate one from a library. I like that, it will save me time and money. But it seems like a simple, cut and dried case of copyright infringement to me (unless Audible is producing the audio AND publishing the e-books and paperbacks).
They may be able to do it for books in the public domain. But those are often free or very cheap to access as texts already.
The captions will be “computer generated“.I don‘t think names and prices will be written correctly all the time.
Youtube has the same problem. Using subtitles on youtube doesn’t show them correctly all the time.
On the other hand I don‘t understand why only some titles will be available on launch.
English isn’t my mother language and I really would appreciate this feature asap.
That gives it a different slant. In a way it's the flip side of having a computer read a text of a book to you. Authors didn't claim that was an infringement of their audio rights.
Robin wrote: "That gives it a different slant. In a way it's the flip side of having a computer read a text of a book to you. Authors didn't claim that was an infringement of their audio rights."That isn't what the second article claims. This says the Authors Guild had a problem with it.
"This isn’t the first time that Amazon has come under fire for publishers when it comes to translating text to audio, or vice-versa. In 2009, the company backtracked on a text-to-speech feature on the Kindle, which allowed readers to listen to their book with machine-generated narrator. The Authors Guild argued that the feature deprived authors of their audio rights, and Amazon disabled it."
Copyright rules are a tricky subject. Technically according to the letter of the non-enforceable law we weren't allowed to rip audio CDs to iTunes. I have many audiobooks in iTunes that are ripped from purchased audio CDs (from Audiobookstand when they were in operation).
I hope they sort things out, it appears that many publishers are opting out though. It would save me a lot of money on e-book purchases.
This Publisher's Weekly post is dated Aug 23rd "AAP Suit Seeks to Block Implementation of Audible Captions"
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/t...