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Now this is a great URL to pass on to your friends with iPods. It's The Telltale Weekly Audiobook Library, a project to create and distribute audiobooks from public domain works.

Presently, the books are not free. Prices typically range from $.25 cents to $3 dollars, although the occasional work costs a little more. The money goes to fund the project and their goal is to distribute the works for free some day, much as Project Gutenberg does now with text. The audio files that they produce are released under a Creative Commons license, which allows you to copy and distribute your downloads to anyone for non-commercial use (read more about that here).

In addition to books in the public domain, the project also sells modern books which are distributed under the same Creative Commons license. They promise that for these books, a substantial portion of the proceeds of each sale will go directly to the author.

Seven percent of the gross revenues of the Telltale Weekly is distributed annually to charities. In 2004, the charities included the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Project Gutenberg. (More details may be found here.)

The Telltale Weekly permits payment via BitPass and PayPal. The files may be downloaded in MP3, AAC or Ogg Vorbis formats. It's worth checking out.