There has understandably been a lot of talk in our community about Voice Dream Reader's decision to introduce a subscription model for all customers.
For me, the critical area of concern is that Voice Dream Reader is violating Apple's very clear Guidelines around what they can and can't do when moving to a subscription model.
For those who paid in good faith and may not be able to afford the subscription, I encourage you to read a blog post I have written summarising this issue. It contains some things you can do to urge Apple to enforce their policies and protect us as consumers.
https://mosen.org/voicedream/
I wish Voice Dream Reader a bright future, but they have breached Apple’s Guidelines. Apple must protect consumers with swift action

Update, 7 April 2024   Applause Group has just released this statement. “Hi everyone,   Following our recent announcement to transition Voice Dream to a subscription, we received an overw…

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@JonathanMosen @podcast What also puzzles me is, how did a no-name company get Amazon to give them the information necessary to make Kindle books accessible with voice stream reader? Hims and humanware have been trying to do that for years. my guess is that they are doing it illegally. My wife used to have an app that would allow her to unprotect Kindle books. However, every time Amazon changed how they would save their Kindle books, the app would no longer work. If Amazon is now giving that information to third-party apps, I’ll be excited to see it come to my brailliant as well as the victor reader stream, and the sense player.
@pfhj2000 @podcast I agree that the fact that they have managed this is curious, and I hope they’re doing it in a sustainable way.