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LibriVox 115 and 1500

Posted on June 3, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox 115 and 1500

We’ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans, which was a great accomplishment. (Considering seven months ago we were at 1,000).

But we also had an impressively productive month: we released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, almost four per day. Our previous record for monthly production was 77, reached in July 2007.

For those looking for some suggestions, here are a few gems from the catalog:

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One-five-oh-oh

Posted on May 29, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 1 Comment on One-five-oh-oh

LibriVox catalog just reached 1,500 items, the lucky audiobook, Four Great Americans, by James Baldwin wins two free tickets to the next LibriVox reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses!

This was the 96th book published this month, and we are pretty close to getting a 100-book month, smashing our previous record of 77 books set in July 2007. Will we make it? Stay tuned.

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Stockholm Challenge

Posted on May 21, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 1 Comment on Stockholm Challenge

Having fun in Stockholm, at the Stockholm Challenge.

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blogdesk: LibriVox & ebay

Posted on May 14, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, on the web | Comments: 5 Comments on blogdesk: LibriVox & ebay

Our friends at SFF Audio have a nice summary of a discussion that comes up once in a while, ebayers selling LibriVox recordings:

I really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are being sold on eBay for $’. Like that guy I too was quite shocked and a little dismayed when I found that out. Here’s me thinking:

These audiobooks are available for free and yet some people are actually SELLING them!?!?! How dare they!

But as Puffin1, a long time LibriVoxateer so sensibly points out…

“It’s okay. We [LibriVox] don’t mind. Everything we do is in the public domain. Thanks for your concern. Welcome to LibriVox. Have fun!”

How cool is that?

It really sums up the LibriVox attitude too. Another LibriVoxer, David Barnes (AKA earthcalling), pointed out that… ‘

the seller credits LibriVox … and is providing a service that LibriVox doesn’t provide – namely audiobooks on CD.’

Their whole attitude is positive and relaxed, their idea is “the more recordings are ‘out there’, the better!” As it turns out, it’s actually a very good thing that a lot of the sellers on eBay are selling these audiobooks. eBayers looking for audiobooks can discover LibriVox that way.

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