E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog: Startup silenced - Talkr up for sale

- Robert Andrews

Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-

Talkr, a text-to-speech web service that lets readers listen to written blog posts, has put itself up for sale after failing to turn a profit in two years.

Founder Chris Brooks revealed that 2,173 bloggers had bought into the service but that only 1,179 of them had agreed to accept audio advertising in the posts that Talkr converts.

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