Dale, You have a point there, yes Kindle does use several proprietary formats and will have access to materials before they get to one of the bat systems. And yes there is that silly worry about synthetic speech taking market from audio books.
Being cheap, I would rarely pay for books I can get free, but neither would I scream very loudly if I had to pay for something I really wanted, in the perhaps naive belief that authors would actually get a part of the price. <GRIN> but I'd only pay for books if the accessibility were really great, not just O.K. Oops, where does that leave BookShare which I use all the time regardless of the pretty high error rate. Nothing is black and white or simple. I wouldn't hold my breath about Kindle accessibility. Tom
