Interesting! I have a somewhat oblique question/suggestion/idea: As somebody who often finds text harder to engage with than audio, I suggest it may also help to spur more awareness and engagement with the work to produce an audio version of it, perhaps in the way that FreeClassicAudiobooks or Librivox do, via a collaboration of readers recording different chapters.
I have not headed such a project, but I’ve looked into it before—I think the book would only be eligible for a project ON those sites if it were in the public domain (is it?) but we could still do something similar with permission from the authors if it isn’t.
I would be interested in volunteering some voice recordings toward such a project. Would anybody else? Is it worth setting up a new related thread to try to coordinate this?
It’s open access. Here is the copyright information from the book. Is this license good enough for the kind of audio adaptation you’re thinking of? (There’s a permissions department at Oxford that you can contact if you’re not sure—they direct to https://plsclear.com/Home/Index I think)
This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Subject to this license, all rights are reserved.
Interesting! I have a somewhat oblique question/suggestion/idea: As somebody who often finds text harder to engage with than audio, I suggest it may also help to spur more awareness and engagement with the work to produce an audio version of it, perhaps in the way that FreeClassicAudiobooks or Librivox do, via a collaboration of readers recording different chapters.
I have not headed such a project, but I’ve looked into it before—I think the book would only be eligible for a project ON those sites if it were in the public domain (is it?) but we could still do something similar with permission from the authors if it isn’t.
I would be interested in volunteering some voice recordings toward such a project. Would anybody else? Is it worth setting up a new related thread to try to coordinate this?
Just seeing this now—sorry for the late reply!
It’s open access. Here is the copyright information from the book. Is this license good enough for the kind of audio adaptation you’re thinking of? (There’s a permissions department at Oxford that you can contact if you’re not sure—they direct to https://plsclear.com/Home/Index I think)
This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Subject to this license, all rights are reserved.
Unfortunately, I think the No Derivatives clause would probably disallow recording an audiobook (but I’m not 100% sure).