Virtual Voice by Amazon KDP

In early November 2023, Amazon’s Kindle Digital Publishing (KDP) surprised the publishing industry by announcing that a beta program for creating audiobooks from eBooks was in the works called “Virtual Voice”. The new service would use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to “read” your KDP eBooks and quickly generate audiobooks which would then be published to Amazon’s Audible store. Left unsaid was that Amazon/KDP would have some sort of exclusivity program to list books produced by their services onl...