Amazon, text-to-speech & help
Posted on | March 3, 2009 |
Two days ago i was on the phone with Olof Mathé, a friend of mine running Cribswapper amongst other things. When talking about my latest project Listen To Blogs he tipped me off about the statment that Amazon gave when backing on Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature. Totally ridiculus objection by the Authors Guild if you ask me but that’s not the interesting part. For me, this was:
“We believe text-to-speech will introduce new customers to the convenience of listening to books and thereby grow the professionally narrated audiobooks business.”
The discussion around adding a text-to-speech feature to Listen To Blogs has been up numerous times but i’ve always argued that the incentive of recording a blog post then would decrease, which i think it still would. But is there a chance that the decrease in incentive will be matched by the increase of demand for podcasts? I can’t decide which of these two strategies would make most sense for a service like LTB:
- Create demand by showing stuff that’s not even half as good as it can be (And provide the solution)
- Show only really good content that people like
What do you think? I’d really appreciate any thougts or ideas! Comment here or send me an e-mail at henrik at listentoblogs.com.
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March 19th, 2009 @ 08:36
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