Archive for the 'in the press' Category

techaddress interview

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

TechAddress is a site about “Internet startup companies and technology … researching existing product advancements, VC investments, social networking and Web 2.0 news.” They wanted to know a bit about LibriVox, and we obliged: see, interview here.

LibriVox: Featured Commoner

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The folks at Creative Commons did a little write up on LibriVox to be found here:
Featured Commoner: LibriVox.

LibriVox celebrates UN Day

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

LibriVox is a cross-cultural, multi-lingual, geographically dispersed project; you could almost call us the United Nations of volunteer-based free public domain audio literature projects. So in order to celebrate United Nations Day (Oct 24), we just released the:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read in 21 languages including Korean, Afrikaans, and Waloon.
And Boing Boing likes it!

Montreal Gazette on LibriVox

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

After more than a year of LibriVoxing and articles in lots of fancy newspapers in other countries, and interviews and stories on many radio stations, my hometown newspaper decided to do a story on LibriVox! Unfortunately, the Gazette decided not to put the article online, but the writer put it up on his own site. [...]

NY Times on LibriVox

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Craig Silverman writes about LibriVox, and a few other public domain projects, in the NY Times today.
There is also a nice guide to some suggested LV recordings, and suggestions from some other projects as well.

And then … USA Today Blog

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Kevin Maney, who blogs for USA Today, picked up on LibriVox from the SMH, and wrote a nice piece with a focus on LV, The Wonder of Free Audiobooks.

Sydney Morning Herald

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

It looks like we have tipped, just, above the media radar: The Sydney Morning Herald wrote a good review of the rebirth of audiobooks, with a mention of LibriVox.

BBC’s Ouch on LibriVox

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Ouch is “a website from the BBC. Its aim is to reflect the lives of disabled people right here and now in the third millennium. It’s not a help and support site. If we were to give it a label, it would probably be closest to lifestyle.” In any case, they wrote up a nice [...]

LibriVox in Wikinews

Monday, May 29th, 2006

There’s a lengthy article/interview with LibriVox over at wikinews. Very nice opening:

Old books never die. They don’t even fade away. Instead, their copyright expires and they are released into the public domain, where hordes of volunteers breathe new life into them.

LibriVox & Twain’s Autobiography

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

LibriVox is the first (we believe) to publish a free, public domain online version of Mark Twain’s Autobiography.
“Mark Twain’s Autobiography” was published in 1924 by New York’s Harper & Brothers Publishers. Published after 1923, this edition is not in the public domain in the USA. However, much of the book was published previously in serial [...]