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We still speak of “turning a page,” still aspire to be “open books” and recite “chapter and verse,” but our pages are now webpages, our books are now e-books and audiobooks, and our chapters and ...

Open book repository Project Gutenberg has turned thousands of its titles into audiobooks practically overnight using synthetic speech, available now for download or streaming on multiple services.

In 2022, audiobook usage increased by 70% in the U.S., and audiobook publishers had $1.8 billion in 2022. By 2032, the global audiobook industry will reach around $39.1 billion. Project Gutenberg is a ...

In the ebook site Project Gutenberg, the readers can explore 5,000 open-license audiobooks. This is an initiative by Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, Google, and MIT. The project has approximately 35,000 ...

Forward-looking: Audiobooks have gained popularity in recent years due to their accessibility, but recording them can be difficult and expensive. Researchers recently demonstrated an automated method ...

With influential works like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis free of copyright as of 2023, it’s truer than ever that the wild world of the public domain can offer a ...

70 YEARS OF BEST SELLERS 1895-1965 by Alice Payne Hackett. 246 pages. R. R. Bowker. $7.90. What is a bestseller, anyway? The phrase is handy but hardly precise. Biggest-seller or most-seller would be ...

In his latest book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, City University of New York journalism professor Jeff Jarvis places us today outside the era of print and beyond the world that print created. In 1454, ...

The moment popularised the term “bibliomania”, as some of the richest men and women in England competed against each other to ...