Free Audiobook Podcasts

Thanks to a link at BoingBoing, I've just read Xeni Jardin's NPR story on free audiobooks available as podcasts. These audio versions are created by volunteers, fans, or even the authors themselves and I think it's a brilliant idea.

Whether you look at it as a way to free (as in free speech and free beer) literature, to find new audiences for books and authors, or as a long tail creation and distribution model, it looks good from any angle.

I'd been introduced to LibriVox some time last year through one of my fellow volunteers at Distributed ProofReaders, but I hadn't heard of Podiobooks before. Very cool!

Go grab yourselves some free audiobook podcasts, and maybe even volunteer to record a chapter or two!