All Amazon Kindles Should Play Audiobooks
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 10/13/2015 1:00:00 AM
For some reason, Amazon decided to eliminate Audiobook support in the black and white Kindle models.
When the first Amazon Kindle was introduced, it had a black and white screen, and it had an audio jack to plug in a headset to listen to books using a crude text-to-speech computer voice. The feature wasn't particularly popular, and some book publishers didn't allow Amazon to support text-to-speech because they felt it would hurt their audiobook sales.
As an audiobook fan, I can understand the publisher's point of view, because a computer voice is no substitute for a good narrator. I can't even imagine listening to an entire book read by a monotone computer voice. Simply stated, if you want your books read to you, get an audiobook version, read by a real person.
When they eventually eliminated the text-to-speech feature, they also eliminated the audio jack, which means many Kindles can't even play audiobooks, which is odd, considering how popular Amazon's Audible division is.
Audible is the world's largest source for audiobooks and Amazon has incorporated Audible support into almost every device on the market, except their own black and white models, such as Kindle PaperWhite and Kindle Touch.
I realize removing the audio jack saves power, and makes the device slightly lighter, but they should consider adding it back to newer models. Even if the only support they add is via Bluetooth, it would be an improvement.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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