Archive for August, 2009

SXSW Panel: When Every Book Is Connected

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

My colleague, co-founder, and the chief architect and getter-doner at Book Oven, Stephanie Troeth has proposed a moderated panel at SXSW this year called:
Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone
We have an all-star line-up who have agreed to join us (if SXSW agrees to give us some space to talk):

Kassia Krozser co-founder [...]

BookList’s Audiobooker on LibriVox

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

There is an interview up over at BookList’s Audiobooker Blog, with Mary Burkey:
The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want [...]

LibriVox’s Fourth Anniversary (and Community Podcast #106)

Monday, August 10th, 2009

It’s our Fourth Anniversary! LibriVox started with an optimistic blog post on 10th August, 2005 … and then grew and grew and …We now have a catalog of 2,557 books in 26 languages. And our catalog is growing every day.
You too can volunteer! Or perhaps just pop in to say hi on the forum.
And [...]

Do you enjoy listening to books?

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

A young guy named Todd sings the praises of LibriVox on Youtube (FYI the cut-off for public domain in the US is 1923, though it’s a bit more complicated than that):

July: mmm… summer, strawberries and audiobooks in the sun.

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

What delicious offerings did we have for you in July? A wide range, as usual:
“Doc” Smith’s space opera Triplanetary, eagerly awaited by all fans of reader Mark F. Smith.
The Sea Wolf and The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.
Eight recordings for children, including By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley, Baum’s The Magic of Oz and [...]