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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by castlecrasher2 on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:50AM (#20799404)
>But I never understood why once I have the audiobook I could not be allowed the text version for free.

The opposite is also true, that Amazon removed and no longer allows text-to-speech for Kindle books, except for certain devices that advertised the feature like one of the Kindles and the Fire Phone. I use my wife's old Fire Phone to do this, and it works rather well.

Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by rstupek on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:08AM (#20800474)
I believe the publishers sued Amazon to have them remove that feature