[wsfii-discuss] just thought i would share - acoustic public domain

Tue Dec 20 19:21:19 UTC 2005

i don't know if it fits into people's definition of free
infrastructure - but a friend of mine started http://www.librivox.org
a couple months ago.

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69780,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

"So McGuire launched LibriVox by recruiting amateur readers to create
audio files of works of literature. The project now includes almost
two dozen complete works, including Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent,
Jack London's The Call of the Wild and other classic novels and poems.
At the current rate of recording, McGuire says he expects LibriVox to
hit 30 complete works by the end of the year."

it's a very cool example of internet-enabled collaboration.