Hugh Mcguire Email Address

Executive Director and Co-founder

LibriVox is free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world.

Hugh has been building tools and communities to bring books onto the open web since about 2005. He's the founder & CEO at Pressbooks, a platform that supports some of the most exciting Open Education publishing (OER) at higher ed institutions around the world. He's the founder of LibriVox.org (free public domain audiobooks, made by volunteers from around the world), and co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, a non-profit that supports open publishing and reading. He lives and work in Montreal, Canada. Hugh was co-editor, with Brian O'Leary, of "Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto — Essays from the bleeding edge of publishing (O’Reilly, 2013)." It's due for an update, and Brian and Hugh discuss it every time they talk. Hugh has talked about the future of publishing around the world, and his work has appeared in various places in print, bits and audio, including: the New York Times, Forbes, the LA Times, BBC Radio, the New Yorker, CBC Radio, NPR, Techcrunch and Pando Daily. Specialties: Open education, the intersection of books and the internet.