Creative Commons Audiobooks

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 11, 2004 @11:50PM from the good-for-the-brain dept.

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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Re:Am I missing something? by xanderwilson · 2004-04-12 00:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

The idea is to slowly and continually fund, stock, and build a free audio library. Recordings of classic texts, which is the heart of Telltale Weekly, will be offered freely after five years or a given number of sales. When free, these audiobooks can be freely distributed whereever and however, including at Project Gutenberg, if they are interested.

Selling the work cheaply until then pays for current and future bandwidth, hosting, and recording costs--and attracts more talent to the project.

Alex.