Posted on 10/15/2025 7:08:03 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Mark Steyn has dozens of well selected audiobooks available with Steyn Club membership. He is an exceptional reader.
Jamestown1630, (and others in case there is interest)
For what it is worth, a group of us have been working for years now to transform old works into audio so that it may increase convenience and efficiency. If I have at some point mentioned this to you before I mean nothing by it but I do not remember seeing this username at many times. I do try to list the works we finish all under the key word freeperbookclub, as well as others I find of a similar nature.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/freeperbookclub/index?tab=articles
Our more popular works include a biography of John Hancock, a bio of Patrick Henry, and Mercy Otis Warren’s 3 volume set cataloging the history of the American Revolution.
Additionally there is two recorded audio versions of the Federalist Papers, and works by really amazing authors such as Bastiat, Hayek, Mises, President Calvin Coolidge, several works about Ben Franklin, the papers of Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, the Journal of Lewis and Clarke, and Christopher Columbus.
All is in the public domain.(and all of the texts are also directly linked if needed)
It has been understood for some time now that audiobooks damage writer income.
The conversion to audio is paid for, by Audiobooks, to the writer, but the problem is that speech-to-text converters are so easy. The number of copies of the book splashed across the internet explodes, and they don’t get paid for.
It has been understood for some time now that audiobooks damage writer income.
The conversion to audio is paid for, by Audiobooks, to the writer, but the problem is that speech-to-text converters are so easy. The number of copies of the book splashed across the internet explodes, and they don’t get paid for.
Major audiobook vendors (eg Recorded Books, Blackstone) hire professional readers. AI might eventually get a chunk of that, but those who listen to AI narrated videos, even with an impersonatioj voice employed, find it tiring.
Nod, I was referring mostly to lost text sales because unauthorized text copies proliferate from voice-to-text conversions.
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