On Saturday December 26, 2009 LibriVox cataloged it’s 3000th free, public domain audiobook title.
I was on a panel the other day about ebook pricing for O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing, Online Conference. Included in the panel were: Michael Tamblyn, VP Sales at Shortcovers; Trip Adler CEO Scribd; Neelan Choksi, CEO Lexcycle/Stanza. And the panel was moderated by Joe Wikert, Publisher at O’Reilly.
If you attended the event, you [...]
Jon Udell is one of the great thinkers about technology, particularly about how technology can be used to do useful things in society. He was one of the first “famous” fans of LibriVox.
So I was happy to be able to talk to Jon on IT Conversations this week about Book Oven. You can listen [...]
Il y’a une petite article dans L’Actualité (Sept 09) sur Book Oven et LibriVox:
« Le numérique ne tuera pas l’édition traditionnelle, mais il va la changer », dit Hugh McGuire. Cet ancien ingénieur en mécanique âgé de 35 ans lançait en 2007 un autre collectif, Earideas, qui recense les balados (podcasts) de l’heure sur le Web. [...]
CT Moore interviewed me for Geekcast.fm. Below, find the results:
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August 10, 2009 in art |
Today is LibriVox’s 4th birthday. LibriVox is a kooky kind of project with the following objective:
To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.
Some statistics, as of today:
Total number of projects: 3113
Number of completed projects: 2556
Number of completed non-English projects: 364
Total number of languages: 29
Number of languages [...]
From CBC’s Writers & Company:
This week, international crime. From Italy, Gianrico Carofiglio; from Sweden, Asa Larsson; from Scotland, Louise Welsh; and from Canada, Giles Blunt – talk about mystery writing.
> Listen here.
Neil Gaiman on Batman, on NPR:
A new graphic novel from DC Comics is “part coda, love letter and summation of Batman’s raison d’etre,” says writer Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman’s take on the Batman mystique — Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? — was published in two parts as the final editions of the long-running Batman and Detective [...]
This has nothing to do with books, but it’s just about the coolest, most wonderful thing I’ve seen on the web in a long time.
Warning: if you have work to do, please do not click on this link.
inbflat.net
This week, Robert Wright tells us how God evolved; Motoko Rich has notes from the field; Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the two wars in Iraq; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
>Listen here.
