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!

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. […]

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 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 […]

Consensus is, this is the best media article yet on LibriVox. Captured the history, the spirit, the mechanics all in a very comprehensive package. Thanks Rebecca!

Is your daily commute filled with blaring morning talk shows and radio traffic reports? If you’re like most commuters, your audio book collection is limited to “Who Moved My […]

Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe & Mail, has an article on Ricky Gervais, podcasting and… a mention of LibriVox. Article by Scott Colbourne. We slot in at number 5 in the podcasts worth checking out:

5. LibriVox. Volunteers read classic novels, which can be downloaded in segments. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Robert Louis […]