There was some LibriVoxiness on Australian Radio recently … the “Final Draft” show on Radio 2SER FM, Sydney. It’s up on the web: This week, we’re stepping outside the confines of the printed page and devoting our entire show to the phenomenon of audiobooks. First, we speak to Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox, a volunteer-run [...]

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. [...]

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):

This is my presentation at the BookNetCanada Tech Forum in March, titled: LibriVox: Time, Love & Books. Sorry, there is 1 slide only, for you Powerpoint buffs. I talk about audiobooks, time acquisition, LibriVox, Google, the link, and the digital archaeology of love. And Hinton, Alberta. Link to the vid.

Neil Gaiman on the (silly) hoopla over the Kindle & its ability to “read” books to you, robot-to-human: As I said first time out, and this is speaking as someone who loves audiobooks, records his own audiobooks, makes a not-insignificant portion of his income from audiobooks and has even won awards for bloody audiobooks… To [...]

Call for Contributions to Essay Collection on The Audiobook This essay collection will consider the significance of the audiobook. The growing popularity of audiobooks over the last several decades means that literary critics may no longer be able to turn a deaf ear to the ways in which oral delivery influences the reception of literature. [...]

MT writes: Hi Hugh, I am writing this mail just to say thank you for the wonderful project you have started. I have been introducing Audio Books form LibriVox to learners of English in Japan in the past year, and I have had a great time. The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Winds [...]

O’Reilly TOC blog has an interview with … me! …. about LibriVox: LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In the following Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack [...]

I recently came upon an article decrying the awfulness of most literary readings, pointed at by Frank Wilson of Books, Inq. Frank thinks it’s not all literary readings that make ears bleed, but that North American (versus British, Irish and other) writers have little command of the oral medium, and thinks that’s the problem. I [...]

Writes the Narrative and Sound Project: I recently started a new web project [The Narrative and Sound Project], and your organization plays a very important part of it. The web project is about existing audiobooks and the idea of synthesizing them with music and sound. I have downloaded some of the audiobooks collection in your [...]