12.29.05
New Site Offers Free Audio Books as MP3s / Podcasts
Free audiobooks via mp3 and podcasts; we’ll be volunteering for this one…
Podcasting News: New Site Offers Free Audio Books as MP3s
According to the site, “Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. ”
How it works:
1. LibriVox volunteers suggest books from the public domain, and we’ll choose some to record.
2. Volunteers “claim†chapters, and record them to mp3.
3. Volunteers submit files to LibriVox
4. The files are hosted on the Internet Archive
5. LibriVox maintains a catalog of complete and incomplete books, and podcasts selected books
LibriVox was founded by Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer interested in the “free movement†in its many guises.
