tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054198.post113500484808750061..comments2023-11-05T03:43:25.425-05:00Comments on It's all good: Gutenberg RadioAlicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14200513597599114189noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054198.post-1135294472261263282005-12-22T18:34:00.000-05:002005-12-22T18:34:00.000-05:00How long will it take? I don't know... but when Pr...How long will it take? I don't know... but when Project Gutenberg started, people thought it would never work. Now there are 17,000 free e-books online there; nearly 2 million downloaded every month.<BR/><BR/>Here's an interesting note I noted; you put in a link to the Web site of the woman who recorded the title you mentioned. I wondered, "I wonder where George got that link?" My bet, I betted, was that it was somewhere on the Librivox site... which it was; each recording has a place for a link to the site of the reader.<BR/><BR/>Which means that you can, essentially, advertise your Web site, to the whole listening world, for the price of taking the time to record a public domain work. From a marketing standpoint, one might recommend a book that's somewhat related to what you do. But that's not necessarily a requirement.<BR/><BR/>What on earth is Andy yapping about today? I'm yapping about how clever the Librivox people are being, in making sure that they've provided a way to make their content viral for their participants in a way that's helpful/valuable for those volunteers.<BR/><BR/>Is it worth it? I don't know... If I were a budding voice-actor, though, I'd sure as heck spend some free time reading some works and posting them on Librivox, and link to it from my personal site. <BR/><BR/>If I had a site on children's books, I'd record a couple children's classics from Gutenberg, link to them from my site (and vice versa, of course) and plug the "free downloadable audiobooks read by our proprietor" angle. <BR/><BR/>If my library had first-editions of some of those Gutenberg texts, or had any kind of special relationship to any of the 17,000 volumes in the collection, I might find some volunteers to do the reading, put the pointers up, etc.<BR/><BR/>Many media, all overlapping, tell a better story.<BR/><BR/>Fun stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com