PDF and EPUB to be available
December 22nd, 2025 | Ramblings
Amazon will make these formats available soon to both new customers and previous purchasers. I just sat and checked off all the boxes to OK that. I think I got all my books, but Amazon changes the order of my bookshelf every time I alter one. If I missed any let me know. I’m hoping these downloads also include the latest editing without demanding they push it through the system. I hope this makes many of you happy.
Wow, no more crazy encryption on the DRM free ebooks? That will be awesome! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
It’s great you where able to do this!
I just need to double check that I own all your books, and how to download the DRM free copies.
If you have any problems with a book I missed let me know. There wasn’t any way to do it as a batch. I had to go into each book individually and that would alter the order on the shelf.
If what I’m reading online is correct, the books are going to start being available (DRM free) in January 2026.
Do you have any news about the status of April (Virtual Voice), are you still planning to release the rest of the series?
I’ve heard many arguments for and against this program; I’m mainly wondering since I haven’t seen any updates regarding Virtual Voice, it would be interesting to know your thoughts on this subject are.
As far as I heard it is pretty much TTS with some minor editting ability and will not be available outside the US. I am regularly running Kindle TTS but unfortunatly you have to keep the screen on for that. When i do that with my Royal Road Webfiction app or ReadEra app when i have the epubs i can do it better. Has the same issues i expect from Virtual Voice like mispronouncing words in some cases and not handling abreviations well (lead the element vs lead as in leading someone/something; AK-47 was Arkansa 47 in my last book. first time that happened with that one).
Really depends on which voice provider you are using which is the standard google tts for me on my Android devices. I can easily change the voice, pitch and speed.
I would love good AI Audiobooks for books that would otherwise not be available and considered writing an app to do so but the tech might need another few years for consistent Ok quality at least when i solo develop something like that.
As for the Epubs:
Thank you very much. Will be reporting back to let you know if it is available in Europe/Germany.
I also will be using those while hiking with TTS for the April Series at least.
There’s already several decent epub to audiobook AI generators that you can run from your own computer, that uses voice cloning to create the audiobooks, with mixed results. 2 of them are on Github. One is by DrewThomasson called ebook2audiobook, and the other is by lukaszliniewicz called Pandrator.
I will test those but as far as i can tell these only use one voice for the entire book.
What i was thinking was different:
Tag the book so you can switch voices ideally automatically with AI => partially works but requires extra user input
Then assign suitable voices for characters based on description => also partially works but a lot worse than the tagging
Sentiment analysis and then set the mood for speech segments => elevenlabs and some other AI can do things like “whisper” “shouting”. also only partially works.
So i need a lot more reliability before i start investing serious time to write all those APIs and editing tools or there is just way too much human input required before this works. I don’t want to use this commercially and just want to run the book through and listen to it. There are commercial services that already offer turning an ebook into an ai audiobook with multiple characters but i don’t believe the quality ones are automated to a high degree.
Thanks for that change to allow us to own the books we buy. Nice to see some reverse enshitification where people can actually “own” the product they “buy”.
Very good news indeed! Looking forward to seeing how they manage it.
From what I’ve read online, it will use the download from Contents option that used to work for all purchased books.