With the shared last Monday version 4.3 of its Kindle app for iOS and the Android counterpart Amazon carries out its two digital hobbies together. For already more than 45,000 Kindle Books can be a small surcharge professionally scanned audiobooks acquire, in reading can then easily switch between text and speech.
Matching musical settings to already acquired Kindle Books come at a special price in the app. It starts already at 99 U.S. cents, for popular titles such as audio books of the Outlander series or the Hunger Games trilogy are still moderate 3.99 U.S. dollars to pay for, it is said in the press release. Using a tool called Matchmaker can be your own Kindle book library at upgradeable title back tap.
Whispersync for Voice allows to automatically read from the last page you read and vice versa. The function has been around for one and a half years within the Audible app, via the update but is now no annoying app-switching to mixed use longer necessary. The new Kindle app 4.3 is also available in Germany. In this country, brings the app but only the new feature, download collections with a tab completely. Basically, the Audible integration would easily also be localized – including the discounted audio updates, because audio books are different from e-books not the German book price fixingProfessional audio books instead of computer voice
. This is not the first attempt by Amazon to weave written and spoken language with each other. In early 2009 rolled Amazon Kindle Text to Speech function of: A computer voice read Kindle users (the first generations had headphone jack and sometimes even speakers) the purchased e-books before. However, many large publishers feared cannibalization of their audiobook sales, forcing Amazon to disable the read-aloud function in their Audiobooks. Ultimately, she was raised with the introduction of the Kindle Paperwhite anno 2012 silently to the grave and walked one as in our Amazon flop Chronicle.
The second attempt seems promising, because this time also flows of money into the pockets of publishers . Whether readers access to the chargeable audio upgrades or only either want to consume one or the other form of media, is another matter (and thus also the question of whether we will come to Germany to enjoy the function).Related messages:
The article” Kindle app integrated Audible: Text-To-Speech, second attempt “was on June 10, 2014 (Tuesday) 17:37 clock by Johannes main written. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is the editor and publisher of lesen.net.
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