Comments on: The New Kindle and the Audio Book Threat http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: YouCreateIT http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-7865 YouCreateIT Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:08:52 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-7865 Since Jeff Bezos and Amazon bought Audible.com and launched Kindle will there be a future Kindle that marries the two applications? That is the eReader + audible book for our short multitasking on the go life we all lead. I hope it is a reality soon. It should sync back and forth from reading to listening exactly where you stopped and bookmarked your progress. I will volunteer as a. Tester. LOL Thanks for your help to spread the word for customer demand. Any idea when the next generation. Audible + eReader combination will be reality? By wedding the two products and having them sync you would keep a strong lead in the eReader market. Just a hint to let eReader, notebook manufacturers and software developers know your customers are out there. Thanks for listening, I mean reading. Nook, Sony eReader, Kindle , Notebook manufactures we are waiting on you. Teann Since Jeff Bezos and Amazon bought Audible.com and launched Kindle will there be a future Kindle that marries the two applications? That is the eReader + audible book for our short multitasking on the go life we all lead. I hope it is a reality soon. It should sync back and forth from reading to listening exactly where you stopped and bookmarked your progress. I will volunteer as a. Tester. LOL Thanks for your help to spread the word for customer demand. Any idea when the next generation. Audible + eReader combination will be reality? By wedding the two products and having them sync you would keep a strong lead in the eReader market. Just a hint to let eReader, notebook manufacturers and software developers know your customers are out there. Thanks for listening, I mean reading.
Nook, Sony eReader, Kindle , Notebook manufactures we are waiting on you.
Teann

]]> By: TN http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-7838 TN Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:58:22 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-7838 I hope that the next generation of eReaders "kindle" will have the feature to also sync with audible books on tape. Not an auto generated voice of the text a professional recording of the book. The first eReader to have this is the one I will buy. My free time like every ones is so limited that I rarely get a long stretch of time to read. I wish to read for as long as possible then switch to audible book on tape format that I can take with me in the car , sit on a desk or in the kitchen while I do another task but can continue listening to my book. When time allows I wish to get back to reading exactly where I left off listening. Next generation of eReaders is what I am dreaming of. When will this be? Since amazon owns audible.com will they be the first. I hope that the next generation of eReaders “kindle” will have the feature to also sync with audible books on tape. Not an auto generated voice of the text a professional recording of the book. The first eReader to have this is the one I will buy. My free time like every ones is so limited that I rarely get a long stretch of time to read. I wish to read for as long as possible then switch to audible book on tape format that I can take with me in the car , sit on a desk or in the kitchen while I do another task but can continue listening to my book. When time allows I wish to get back to reading exactly where I left off listening. Next generation of eReaders is what I am dreaming of.
When will this be? Since amazon owns audible.com will they be the first.

]]> By: Steve http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-3442 Steve Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:27:12 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-3442 While I appreciate Roy Blount Jr.'s perspective and that even tought he quality of the computer voices is bad he has to draw the line in the sand now because the voices will only get better I think he is totally wrong. This is analogous to the argument decades ago that would not allow owners of record albums to create a cassette tape of the album. I am paying for the content once (by buying the ebook, the author is paid), don't make me pay for it a second time to change formats. Complain only if the author isn't getting paid at all. While I appreciate Roy Blount Jr.’s perspective and that even tought he quality of the computer voices is bad he has to draw the line in the sand now because the voices will only get better I think he is totally wrong. This is analogous to the argument decades ago that would not allow owners of record albums to create a cassette tape of the album. I am paying for the content once (by buying the ebook, the author is paid), don’t make me pay for it a second time to change formats. Complain only if the author isn’t getting paid at all.

]]> By: Liz http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-3441 Liz Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:39:21 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-3441 I just talked with someone today who ALSO got her "late" Christmas present, the Kindle 2. She loves it -- I'll have to ask her about the audio book feature. I'm used to doing audio books on my now displaced Walkman (books on tape) and my iPod. I'm not sure, given MY use of these during exercise, taht the Kindle would do it for me -- and DEFINITELY, the lame robotic voices would not. I appreciate a well-done audio book. The narrator makes a huge difference. Huge. That's why I was blown away by the "audio movie" version of <a href="http://www.ajscudiere.com/" rel="nofollow"> Resonance.</a> (It's a medical/end of the world kind of thriller, a la Michael Crichton.) The audio movie is a big step up from audio books -- makes the latter seem pretty flat. The movies are much more like a radio drama. Very enjoyable. (You might be able to get Resonance on your Kindle. Certainly you can get a free audio movie track on the author's web site.) I just talked with someone today who ALSO got her “late” Christmas present, the Kindle 2. She loves it — I’ll have to ask her about the audio book feature. I’m used to doing audio books on my now displaced Walkman (books on tape) and my iPod. I’m not sure, given MY use of these during exercise, taht the Kindle would do it for me — and DEFINITELY, the lame robotic voices would not. I appreciate a well-done audio book. The narrator makes a huge difference. Huge. That’s why I was blown away by the “audio movie” version of Resonance. (It’s a medical/end of the world kind of thriller, a la Michael Crichton.) The audio movie is a big step up from audio books — makes the latter seem pretty flat. The movies are much more like a radio drama. Very enjoyable.

(You might be able to get Resonance on your Kindle. Certainly you can get a free audio movie track on the author’s web site.)

]]> By: Dan Colman http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-3438 Dan Colman Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:59:45 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-3438 Gideon, Thanks for the clarification on that. I am still new to the Kindle. Dan Gideon,

Thanks for the clarification on that. I am still new to the Kindle.

Dan

]]> By: Gideon http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-3439 Gideon Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:16:01 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-3439 It is really terrible. But you can also listen to audiobooks ON the Kindle. For a device without a whole lot of options they really made an effort to put it on there. It is really terrible.

But you can also listen to audiobooks ON the Kindle. For a device without a whole lot of options they really made an effort to put it on there.

]]> By: Marcelo Ramires http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_new_kindle_and_the_audio_book_threat.html#comment-3440 Marcelo Ramires Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:02:09 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2732#comment-3440 i still think that these voice generating system has to get MUCH better to become a threat to audiobooks. I've seen a review, some ads and concluded that it's not as good as an audiobook. Too eletronic and with some gaps and tone variations. However, this device makes e-reading so nice that audiobooks become secondary. you can take 1500 books wherever you go and read comfortably, why listen to it on your ipod when you could read it in your own rithm, with your own inside voice in amazon kindle 2? cheers i still think that these voice generating system has to get MUCH better to become a threat to audiobooks.
I’ve seen a review, some ads and concluded that it’s not as good as an audiobook.
Too eletronic and with some gaps and tone variations.
However, this device makes e-reading so nice that audiobooks become secondary. you can take 1500 books wherever you go and read comfortably, why listen to it on your ipod when you could read it in your own rithm, with your own inside voice in amazon kindle 2?
cheers

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