I'm copying over a post by Catlady/skinmaan in the Deals forum:
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Originally Posted by skinmaan
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Originally Posted by Catlady
I was just about to post regarding this title. Elizabeth Klett is my favorite Librivox narrator, and this is apparently a title she recorded for Librivox. I noticed that some other of her Librivox titles are being sold at Audible, and that she has posted "Buyer Beware" comments on a couple of them indicating that they are her free Librivox recordings.
I contacted her through her website to let her know about this one.
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Point well-made and thanks for informing the reader. I did some checking and if you look at the publisher's catalog on Audible (SAGA Egmont) it seems to be made up of classics (likely from Librivox) and foreign language publications. |
I ran across the following list at the Goodreads Audiobook group and I thought it might be of interest:
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A heads up on this particular company, SAGA Egmont, which is publishing quite a few classics. They are taking the recordings from LibriVox.org and repackaging them as new. Many people who have recorded for LibriVox (myself included) are very unhappy about this. Audible has been notified that these are LibriVox recordings -- which they have removed in the past when notified of this -- but lately they've been letting them slide through.
It's certainly true that our LibriVox recordings are released into the Public Domain which means that we have no control or legal ownership of them. However, most of us are very unhappy that unscrupulous 'publishers' are duping people into buying recordings that were made for free for the public. The narrator of this book, Elizabeth Klett, who ublished a huge amount of solos on LibriVox before launching a career as a professional, is not receiving any compensation for her recording being used this way.
For anyone who is interested, another company to watch for this type of practice is called 'Paperless.' They have quite a few LibriVox recordings on Audible for sale, too. Downpour, which is owned by Blackstone, had one of my LibriVox solos for sale on their site from Paperless. I complained to Downpour and they removed the book.
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And from the same poster:
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However, these publishers selling them on Audible have stripped all mention of LibriVox and 'the public domain' from the recordings. They are passing them off as their own. A number of narrators, including myself, got our start on LibriVox by volunteering and then gradually transitioned to recording professionally. In most cases, we've upgraded our equipment, our recordings areas, taken classes, etc. These publishers are sticking our earlier and, in some cases, less polished recordings up for sale next to our 'professional' ones. Most of us don't like that, either.
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