Building-Communities


LibriVox is a passionate book community deeply engaged with public domain books. Thousands of volunteers have donated countless hours making audio recordings of public domain books. No money changes hands - the audio is given away for free. Why do so many people spend so much time making free audiobooks? There are many reasons, but at base it's love of books.

 

There are many other bookish networks on the web, such as: Shelfari, LibraryThing, Distributed Proofreaders, Project gutenberg, bkkeepr, Authonomy, WritersCafe, WeBook, BookRabbit, BookCrossing, BookMooch, Nanowrimo, and many others (please insert other links if you have).

 

What does this mean for: making books, reading books, marketing books? How can publishers, writers, sellers, and readers build on these networks to ensure that all of us keep writing, editing, reading, designing, editing books, and that some of us can get paid to do so?