Ok legionnaires here it is the last episode of 8810…

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Our story comes to a close in this episode and…do you really want me to give it away in the description? I didn’t think so.

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Don’t Forget about the this one time at work contest get your story in and maybe get $20 out of it…

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Chester’s paranoia comes to a head in this episode and the office gets news about Moleth and her trip to Peru.

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Bill enjoys a relaxing Halloween as the girls from claims walk around in revealing costumes and Bill enjoys the spoils of winning a bet.

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The department learns the ins and outs of workplace safety, taught by Star Wars, but things get a little out of hand when Star Wars tells the office they can’t wear open toed shoes anymore.

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Don’t forget about the contest…

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We all hate corporate surveys and Bill is no different. In this episode, he is forced to take a survey asking his opinion about the department.

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Don’t forget about the contest…

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Check out Forever Fifteen

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The building is blacked out with a power outage that lasts for hours. To pass the time, Bill and some of the staff got to lunch at BW2’s, where they staff meets one of Bill’s friends, Cory.

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Management comes down hard on the department for low quality scores, but the thing that has everyone worried is the announcement that Riders is looking to leverage some offshore resources.

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Bill is placed on the ever vigilant and highly trained AED and fire warden teams, in response to a compliant from Star Wars that he is understaffed.

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Want $20 to spend in the iTunes music store? Go check out the “This one time at work…” contest in the forum, we’ll taking stories for the contest tell April 20th, click here to check out the stories…

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The Denver audit center goes on there annual company picnic. As the day progresses, Bill learns that the bad feelings he generates are going to cause the end of the world, according to Moleth. On the bright side at least there’s good food.

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And if you liked what you heard about Choffy check it out…

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Legionnaires,

I had an interesting article sent to me by a listener: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/10/authors-guild-claims.html

I will admit that when I read this article I was a little miffed with the Authors Guild, and said to my self there is no way anyone would whine about text to speech. Not wanting to hold a false misconception I went to the guilds website and found the original article for my self.

First of all I would like to commend Amazon for making this feature available in the new Kindle, and second I would like to tell the Authors Guild to get a life. Before I go off about this I would like to give you the link the Article on the Authors Guild site so you can decide for yourself, you may or may not agree with me.

http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/e-book-rights-alert-amazons-kindle-2.html

I’m not a member of the guild and I suspect they wouldn’t have me, I’m a podcast author and in essence everything I do goes against the grain of the publishing industry. For one I give my stuff away for free, you can listen to my books without charge and if you like them you can give them to a friend and it doesn’t bother me in the least bit. My only real preference for people downloading my work from legonbook.com or podiobooks.com is so I know how many people are downloading my stuff it gives me warm fuzzies all over to see the numbers go up. So as an author I feel justified in commenting on this stupidity.

“Audiobooks surpassed $1 billion in sales in 2007; e-book sales are just a small fraction of that. While the audio quality of the Kindle 2, judging from Amazon’s promotional materials, is best described as serviceable, it’s far better than the text-to-speech audio of just a few years ago. We expect this software to improve rapidly.” – Guild Article

Are you serious? I don’t care how good the speech gets it’s still a computer don’t get me wrong HAL was a talker but these people bought a copy of the ebook if they want to have a computer read it to them or there mom it shouldn’t make a difference.

“The remarks have been interpreted by some as suggesting that the Guild believes that private out-loud reading is protected by copyright. It isn’t, unless the reading is being done by a machine. And even out-loud reading by a machine is fine, of course, if it’s from an authorized audio copy.” – Guild Article

Ok so let me get this straight mom can read to you, that’s cool but my computer can’t?

“Others suggest that challenging Amazon’s use of this software challenges accessibility to the visually impaired. It doesn’t: Kindle 2 isn’t designed for such use. The Guild continues to support efforts to make works truly accessible to the visually impaired.” – Guild Article

Wow Amazon should send the Guild a thank you card for clearing up what they were trying to accomplish and here this whole time I was under the misconception that they were trying to sell books.
This is yet another example of the dinosaur side of the publishing industry making its death throws heard. If the Kindle was downloading the audiobook and playing that at no extra charge fine get pissed but to say that it can’t read to someone is ludicrous. The only part of the industry hurt by the Kindle is the printing companies, people will still buy audiobooks, those of us who listen to them normally listen in the car or at work, the files are on our MP3 players with all of our other music. The Kindle is hardly something you can strap to your arm when you go for a run. Further more many of the things people like about audiobooks is that it’s a performance, you get all of the different voices to bring you into the action, text to speech will likely never have that ability. More over this is a slight to the vision impaired community, what’s next will they not be allowed to have there computer read them the news?

Ok I’m going to stop going off now, but I will leave you with this, when my books are available on the Kindle I don’t care if you have the Kindle read them to you, your mom, dad or anyone, just so long as you tell a friend

tell me what you think…