Monday, October 3, 2016

Amazon’s Kindle Reader: return of the read-aloud function – Heise Newsticker

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In the US, Amazon now sells an Adapter that complements the Kindle Paperwhite in a text-to-speech – thought about for the Blind. And also for the new Oasis suggests that a text-to-speech function will be upgraded.

Amazon has taken in the USA, a Kindle Paperwhite to offer, and is supplied with an Audio Adapter, a text-to-speech voice output. Thus, a function comes back to the E-readers of the online retailer that had it recently, the Kindle Keyboard and wanted since then, again and again by customers. In contrast to the then, the now added function of voice view but also works in the menus and should make the Reader for the Blind and visually impaired accessible.

headphone to the USB connection

The Adapter, there are so far only in the US Store of Amazon in a Bundle with a Kindle Paperwhite for $ 140. The surcharge of US $ 20 compared to the Kindle Paperwhite is made by a 20 Dollar voucher for Amazon right back betting, so that the audience does not have to pay extra. You can then connect headphones via the Adapter to the USB port of the Kindles and the text-to-speech voice, listen to music or audio books will not play. Overall, the batteries should hold for six hours when read aloud.

While it is still unclear whether the Adapter should also come to Germany, we already see that not only is the Kindle Paperwhite are to be added to the text-to-speech function. So there is on the new Kindle Oasis a folder called “Voice” in the apparently already the necessary files for a text-to-speech function. Still, they can not be used. The Adapter should work here also soon. The Reading Apps on the Kindle Fire Tablets, the 5. Generation support, however, the text-to-speech function, explained Amazon. (mho)

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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Amazon’s Kindle Reader: return of the read-aloud function – Heise Newsticker

the

(image: Amazon)

In the US, Amazon now sells an Adapter that complements the Kindle Paperwhite in a text-to-speech – thought about for the Blind. And also for the new Oasis suggests that a text-to-speech function will be upgraded.

Amazon has taken in the USA, a Kindle Paperwhite to offer, and is supplied with an Audio Adapter, a text-to-speech voice output. Thus, a function comes back to the E-readers of the online retailer that had it recently, the Kindle Keyboard and wanted since then, again and again by customers. In contrast to the then, the now added function of voice view but also works in the menus and should make the Reader for the Blind and visually impaired accessible.

headphone to the USB connection

The Adapter, there are so far only in the US Store of Amazon in a Bundle with a Kindle Paperwhite for $ 140. The surcharge of US $ 20 compared to the Kindle Paperwhite is made by a 20 Dollar voucher for Amazon right back betting, so that the audience does not have to pay extra. You can then connect headphones via the Adapter to the USB port of the Kindles and the text-to-speech voice, listen to music or audio books will not play. Overall, the batteries should hold for six hours when read aloud.

While it is still unclear whether the Adapter should also come to Germany, we already see that not only is the Kindle Paperwhite are to be added to the text-to-speech function. So there is on the new Kindle Oasis a folder called “Voice” in the apparently already the necessary files for a text-to-speech function. Still, they can not be used. The Adapter should work here also soon. The Reading Apps on the Kindle Fire Tablets, the 5. Generation support, however, the text-to-speech function, explained Amazon. (mho)

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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Amazon: So a Pseudo-book publisher Amazon gambled customers, million – STAR

Amazon Kindle Store is a dream come true for writers – and for hustler. The a can finally sell without a publisher print their works directly to the reader, the other with Pseudo-books in a row rip off customers. One of the most successful Amazon impostor is now blown. He earned in one year more than two million euros. And operating for over 80,000 Amazon Accounts.

The needed Valeriy S. to push his books in the Amazon lists above, reported ZDNet. He sold, namely, trashy books, especially a supposed Advisor. He had to cook every possible and impossible topic: non-verbal communication to herbal antibiotics. Some had many eBooks but together: they were extremely cobbled quickly together, brims with spelling and grammar errors and pure money were for the reader to waste.

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100 books per month

Considering how many of the works he verscheuerte, would be anything but a miracle: Almost 1500 books cast S. in nearly 15 months on the market, all under a Pseudonym. The mesh was always the same: To be offered at the beginning of his books as action free-of-charge, a course of action, the Amazon allowed officially. With its Thousands of Fake Accounts “bought” the new plant EN masse, sometimes hundreds of times within a few hours. So the books ended up in the top of the Ranking, some even managed in the Top-100 lists, especially in niche areas. And so, in spite of bad content for potential buyers, interesting.

That was enough for real sales, a few, and found time, in fact, a few Hundred customers. S. washed then quickly thousands of dollars in the coffers. The were filled to the brim: 2.44 million US dollars (about 2.1 million euros) was S. in June of 2015, by eBooks, were added, 83.000 Dollar, for printed books. The security researchers of “MacKeeper”.

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Well-hidden bad

protected come The were S. rather randomly on the ropes: they were simply his Server, of the anonymizing services disguised transactions were settled. Was not easily protected, but a password – and contained a database of its entire fraudulent Empire.

the security discovered by experts that S., who had actually worked as a Software developer for Microsoft, operating his business, sometimes even officially, His Start-up “Alteroxity” campaigned openly in order to be able to deliver every theme imaginable done-written books, including positive reviews and that it had already published more than 2000 books in the Kindle Store. So the company is not: The alleged co-founder doesn’t seem to exist, its supposed photo comes from a public photo database.

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Now shut down the company’s page anyway: As soon as

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