This goes into some specific legal expertise, so I might be wrong, but Amazon can’t even issue such license as it doesn’t have such license with authors themselves.
I think that when Audible provided the opposite function (displaying the currently read text on the screen) Amazon was sued by some authors and as far as I remember this was pulled back for that reason. If anyone had license with Amazon he would implement it properly in short time. The reason why those services don’t work is exactly because they are the hack - they use the web browser and they can’t get specific portion of the book but need to try to scroll so that it gets loaded in the browser which is the hell to make it work in real life use cases. Though those apps that convert the book into the PDF also use the same trick but it is likely much easier to download whole book than to try to download it on demand. On the other hand loading on demand should be legally less wrong and would bring less harsh penalties. Or maybe it would be quite hard to download whole the book on the mobile. On Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:28:00 PM UTC+2 Richard Turner wrote: > It may be illegal for an app to give access to Kindle books if they do not > have an agreement with Amazon first. To promise access, without getting all > that set up would be very silly on the app developer's part. > > > > Richard, USA > > "INTROVERTS UNITE ... > > SEPARATELY IN YOUR OWN HOMES" > > -- as seen on a T-shirt with a power fist raised > > My web site: https://www.turner42.com > > (sent from my iPhone 13 pro) > > > On Jul 17, 2024, at 9:24 AM, Ivan Icin <labsii...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Kindle is coming soon to Speechify for at least 2 years and could be even > 3 it is hard to count now. > > > I don’t think that any app will ever deploy that feature for the simple > reason that it is illegal and no person that has a brain would allow Amazon > to take legal action against his company. > > Even the practice that they use now to highlight that it is for > accessibility purposes only and that user needs to agree that he won’t use > for other purposes unless he needs accessibility is extremely legally risky > and may not work well worldwide where regulation regarding this may vary. > > If you believe that you have legal rights to use Kindle books that way, > then simply use some of those free apps that convert them to PDFs and then > you can use them in any app that you like. > > On Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 1:33:52 AM UTC+2 Kayla Puderer wrote: > >> There Kendall option is coming soon, or a couple of weeks ago when I >> installed the app it was. >> I certainly couldn’t get the app to work, it would only work with files I >> had on my phone, which was quite limiting, so I unsubscribed and took it >> off my phone. 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