A google search using the term: “Text-to-Speech: Not enabled” site:www.amazon.com today gives 13,500 hits. On May 17, 2009, the same search gave 343 hits.
An earlier list of soundproof e-books is here. More examples of soundproof* e-books follow:
Stanford Copyright Professor Paul Goldstein, Anna Quindlen, former President Bill Clinton, and Bishop Desmond Tutu, are four authors who have recently switched off text to speech, making books inaccessible to many persons with reading disabilities.
{*The term soundproof books was used by George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman in a 2002 article in First Monday. For more information on the dispute over text of speech in Kindle 2, see http://www.readingrights.org}
Giving (Kindle Edition)
by Bill Clinton (Author)
Publisher: Knopf (September 4, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
No Future Without Forgiveness (Kindle Edition)
by Desmond Tutu (Author)
Publisher: Image (February 11, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Devil Wears Prada (Kindle Edition)
by Lauren Weisberger (Author)
Publisher: Doubleday (April 15, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kindle Edition)
by Harold S. Kushner (Author)
Publisher: Anchor; Anu edition (December 18, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Kindle Edition)
by Jules Verne (Author)
Publisher: Modern Library (December 9, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama (Kindle Edition)
by Gwen Ifill (Author)
Publisher: Doubleday (January 20, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kindle Edition)
by Tracy Kidder (Author)
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (September 9, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (Kindle Edition)
by James Webb (Author)
Publisher: Broadway; 1st edition (October 11, 2005)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (Kindle Edition)
by John Updike (Author)
Publisher: Ballantine Books (December 18, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
A Short Guide to a Happy Life (Kindle Edition)
by Anna Quindlen (Author)
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (April 1, 2001)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World (Kindle Edition)
by Peter M. Senge (Author), Joe Laur (Author), Sara Schley (Author), Bryan Smith (Author), Nina Kruschwitz (Author)
Publisher: Broadway Business; 1 edition (June 10, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Good Dog. Stay. (Kindle Edition)
by Anna Quindlen (Author)
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (November 20, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
I, Robot (Kindle Edition)
by Isaac Asimov (Author)
Publisher: Spectra; Mti edition (June 1, 2004)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Kindle Edition)
by William D. Cohan (Author)
Publisher: Doubleday (March 10, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Communist Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
by Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Author)
Publisher: Bantam Classics (August 31, 2004)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Wealth of Nations: (A Modern Library E-Book) (Kindle Edition)
by Adam Smith (Author)
Publisher: Modern Library (November 1, 2000)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Future of Life (Kindle Edition)
by Edward O. Wilson (Author)
Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (April 9, 2002)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (Kindle Edition)
by Wynton Marsalis (Author), Geoffrey Ward (Author)
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (September 2, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
A Jury of Her Peers (Kindle Edition)
by Elaine Showalter (Author)
Publisher: Knopf (February 24, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Boyfriend 101: A Gay Guy’s Guide to Dating, Romance, and Finding True Love (Kindle Edition)
by Jim Sullivan (Author)
Publisher: Villard; 1st edition (May 13, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
A Patent Lie (Kindle Edition)
by Paul Goldstein (Author)
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (June 17, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Kindle Edition)
by Elizabeth Strout (Author)
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (March 25, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Crime and Punishment (Kindle Edition)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author)
Publisher: Modern Library (January 7, 1999)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Letter to a Christian Nation (Kindle Edition)
by Sam Harris (Author)
Publisher: Knopf (September 19, 2006)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (Kindle Edition)
by Michael Wolff (Author)
Publisher: Broadway (December 2, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled