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Those sound like the right goals, if you have a way to implement them. Does your startup have a website yet?
We finished fine-tuning our prototype yesterday (you know your web site is ready when your registration page looks beautiful). Starting today we're coding the beta.
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Also, isn't reading on a kindle also like a movie? At least when you scroll, the text is moving across the screen. So I think Amazon should also pay for the movie rights.
I don't think the refresh rate is fast enough to "scroll".
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We finished fine-tuning our prototype yesterday (you know your web site is ready when your registration page looks beautiful). Starting today we're coding the beta.
Any chance of a sneak preview? I promise not to share with my fellow Authors Guild members until instructed to.
EDIT: Or just drop a line: my email's in my profile.
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I know, but I wrote "anything legal". Reading the book to an audience might not be legal, but running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
I don't disagree with you, but that's still begging the question.
What is? This is the salient point:
running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
You work for six months or a year building up your product, for no pay. A startup founder - or an unpublished author. What most tech types don't realize is how much risk there is already in the writers profession. These are not fat-cat music executives. They don't have anything like as much chance of becoming rich as a founder of a startup. Heck, most don't even make a living, and have to keep the day job; even once…
I have not bought a single newspaper this year - and I have not even looked at online advertisements on newspaper websites.
I think the newspaper industry is going to largely collapse and it is going to burn everyone (worse reporting, no more investigative reporting, etc....)
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But Amazon is neither selling nor giving away audio books. They are giving away a general text-to-speech solution which may conveniently be used on a book. Arguing that this is violating copyrights is the same thing as saying that text-to-speech is inherently illegal.
I wonder how things would change if the text-to-speech were done server-side? I'd imagine one can get significantly better quality if you're not doing text-to-speech on the 400Mhz processor on the Kindle 2.
Also, what if you're using it as a "book on tape" in the car, on a road trip through the middle of nowhere? You lose network connection, you lose your book on tape.
tldr: I think it would be better quality, when you could get it, but at some level reliability is more important for this application.
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I don't disagree with you, but that's still begging the question.
that's still begging the question. What is? This is the salient point: running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
I totally agree that it should be, but I disagree that this has been established in any legal sense. Personally I think the evidence points in the direction of "it has never been considered legally".