iHear iBooks?

The latest version of iBooks apparently has a read-aloud feature — which is awesome. But I wonder: does it work for all books? Wasn’t this a huge issue with the Kindle? I recall loving that feature, then Amazon essentially killed it after publishers complained.

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  1. chrisjniles reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    From the iTunes Store and What’s New in 1.3: “Help your children learn to read...new...
  2. rickwebb reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    voice actors who complained, wasn’t it? Or am
  3. penllawen said: Amazon gave publishers a “disable text-to-speech” bit, which most of them immediately flipped for all their books. Something to do with audiobook licensing and/or cannibalisation, was the (weak) reasoning.
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