On #lesswrong, br1an mentioned that he wanted "to start an enjyn project to do a high quality professional grade audiobook production of HPMOR". (Enjyn is a lot like Kickstarter.)

moshez apparently listens to a lot of audio material ('escapepod, podcastle and with a little help'), and says "when they're done by a freelance voice actor, they always say how they can be hired", which suggests that VAs might be pretty cheap. One might only need a single VA, which is how a number of professional audiobooks like the Discworld books are done, and the results are not necessarily bad (drethelin: 'In my experience a single awesome voice actor for an audiobook is way better than a cast').

So what are people's thoughts? Does anyone know what sort of cost estimate we would be looking at? MoR has a lot of reviewers, but I don't know how many we could expect to kick in $20 or $50.

EDIT: There is actually an existing audiobook on Kickstarter; looks like they did it for $5k, with multiple actors and background voices, but on the other hand, their book seems to be much shorter than MoR is/will be and at least part of it was funded by a grant.

EDIT': Eneasz tries doing it himself: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/50h/hpmor_audio_book_pilot/