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Arwen's avatar
Arwen
Channel Surfer
12 years ago

New channel idea - Amazon Kindle Reader for Roku

Recently I started playing with Amazon's Cloud Player channel. I don't have many songs installed, but I have bought all my MP3s from them, (as Amazon does not have as many problems using non-Amazon ...
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37mediagroup
Roku Guru
7 years ago
I mean, don't you think 'Audio Books' have greater potential & market share than reading an entire book on the TV. Maybe there's a small market for it, I'm not sure I'd invest too much into it. Also, advertising. Would someone really want to sit thru a commercial break while reading a book on their TV? 

I get it, the 'text' is already written & there on Kindle, so it's only a matter of transcribing it to a channel. But Amazon surely isn't wanting to push Roku's out the door, and Roku surely doesn't want customers sitting in front of there TVs not seeing commercials. And again, would market research show people want to read an entire book on their TV set? 
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coastalguy
Binge Watcher
6 years ago

I would love to have it on my Roku streaming to my 65" TV sitting in my easy chair, instead of having to read my Kindle Books on some small screen, or at a desk reading it from my computer. Considering I am on Roku, 98% of the time, to include The Great Courses photography and cooking lessons, being able to quickly bring up my books to continue reading or making reference to them (some are manuals I need to refer to periodically), would be great.