Audiobooks

Announcing the new Iambik Audiobook Company

Today we received an email from Hugh McGuire, the guy who started the fantastic LibriVox public domain audiobook community (with many of their source eBooks coming from Project Gutenberg), announcing the launch of his new audiobook company called Iambik Audio. In his email he says; We are thrilled to announce the launch a new audiobook […]

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How to Convert an eBook to MP3

One of the easiest ways to start creating MP3 files of eBooks is to visit download TextAloud from NextUp. The product costs $29.95 but they do have a trial offer for you to try out. Then you will need a “voice”. Because I am British I use “Graham” from Acapela. Voices from this manufacturer cost […]

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Speak The Speech – Shakespeare audio for free

In response to our Shakespeare Actors Wanted request, where we are looking for volunteers actors to read the plays of Shakespeare, I had an email from a Peter Pressman who wrote to me about the Speak The Speech project. This is a group of volunteers who are wanting to make Shakespeare more universally accessible by […]

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LibriVox Produces its 1,000th Audio Recording!

This is a fantastic feat for LibriVox who do great work on producing public domain audio recordings, much of which gets passed to the Project Gutenberg archives. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here is the official press release. LibriVox makes it to 1,000! LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: “http://librivox.org/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allen-poe/“, […]

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Combined PG projects hit the 25,000th post!

This last week the combined PG projects hit the 25,000th eBook. The book that was posted is; Audio: The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon 22978 [Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/7/22978 ] [Files: 22978-readme.txt; 22978-index.html; 22978-mp3.mp3; 22978-ogg.ogg; 22978-m4b.m4b; 22978-spx.spx ] Thanks to Carl Vonnoh, III and LibriVox (www.librivox.org) This was […]

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Shakespearean Actors Wanted

Along with the thousands of text files that Project Gutenberg has to offer there are also many audio recordings. For many people these are great ways to get to know the works of different authors. Recently Michael Hart received a request from Tina Hansen, I notice that your site offers a number of audio books, […]

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Turn eBooks into MP3

We’re building a team to read our eBooks into MP3 files for the visually impaired and other audio book users. Let us know if you’d like to join this group. More information at www.gutenberg.org/audio

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