You may not know that LibriVox has a catalog API: that is, a way for other developers to access our whole catalog to build apps & other services on top of our audiobooks. You can find info about it here:
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/LibriVoxAPI
This has resulted in numerous audiobook apps for the iPhone, Android, as well as a few web services built on top of the LibriVox catalog – which is wonderful, because it gives more people access.
Now there is a “new” catalog spec being developed for ebooks, called OPDS, the Open Publishing Distribution System … which is designed to standardize how publishers let people know about their ebook collections, see:
http://opds-spec.org/
The tireless Chris Goringe has been working on implementing what will be, I think, the first audiobook catalog to the OPDS spec… Which means that we’ll standardize how other developers access out catalog.
Among other things, that should mean that our catalog can be put into places like the Open Library.
It’s kinda geeky, but kinda fun. More news to come …