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Creative Commons Audiobooks
xanderwilson writes "The New York Times (2nd half of the article; free reg. required as always) writes, 'Project Gutenberg is well known for offering free electronic versions of famous public-domain texts. Now Telltale Weekly wants to be its audio-book equivalent.' Of interest to others in the Slashdot community: Ogg Vorbis and MP3 downloads, payment via Bitpass micropayments, and a cheap-now, free later (with a Creative Commons License) business model." (And if you buy the Ogg Vorbis versions, part of the money goes to xiph.org.)
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They make an exception for the blind. You may, if you have purchased one copy, make unlimited copies for the blind provided that you limit access to those additional copies.
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Perhaps I'm overconfident, but I'm fairly sure that nobody's going to show up at my house and demand a check to pay for the continued use of my iPod.
Of course not. Apple already paid it for you -- which means you paid when you bought it. All legal mp3 players have to pay for a license. They just pass it on to you in the price of your player. Windows users don't have to pay the "Microsoft Tax" themselves when they buy a new computer, it's included in the price.
Try WWW.AudioBooksForFree.com. They have been covered on /. before and they allow you to download .mp3 files (of somewhat crappy quality) for free. Or if you want audio quality then you can take out your wallet. They also have hundreds of titles available. It's the only way to survive on the graveyard shift.
The Bible is already on the web for free in MP3 format.
http://audiotreasure.com/
In several languages:
The World English Bible narrated by David Williams Old and New Testaments
The King James Bible narrated by Stephen Johnston Old and New Testaments
La Biblia Reina Valera narrated by Juan Alberto Ovalle Nuevo Testamento y Salmos
The King James Bible narrated by ASI New Testament
The Mandarin Bible narrated by ASI Old and New Testaments
Cantonese NT narrated by ASI
Scripture Selections KJV and WEB Encoded for email
Urdu New Testament narrated by ASI
Hindi New Testament narrated by ASI
Tagalog New Testament narrated by ASI
Slovak New Testament narrated by ASI
Polish Bible narrated selections
The Gospels and Psalms in Arabic
Worship Songs in mp3
Hebrew Old Testament narrated by ASI
Punjabi New Testament
Bengali New Testament
Free Christian AudioBooks
Tamil New Testament
God's Powerful Saviour
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
I considered this initially and I'm suprised that of all the feedback requests for other formats, this is the first time anyone has publicly or privately requested Speex.
Mainly it's the lack of support for Speex (I know, I know. Something has to come first, the chicken or the egg.) in devices and software. But I figure the more popular Ogg Vorbis gets (and the more support Xiph.org gets) the more likely Speex will eventually become a complimentary standard. While Ogg Vorbis was designed for music, not voice, it's still a better alternative than MP3.
For the "fundraising" part of this audiobook project, a third format Telltale might offer would most likely be AAC, based on user requests. But I do intend to eventually support Speex for free works.
Alex.