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INDEPENDENT AUTHORS AND WRITERS
ABooks.co is an eCommerce platform for independent authors to distribute their manuscript.
SELF-PUBLISHING IS TEAM-EFFORT
AUTHOR BASIC PLAN (FREE)
UP TO 50 BOOKS PER SELLER ACCOUNT
Sell up to 50 books with the free Basic Plan. Please contact us if you need to sell more books.
YOUR OWN FRONTEND STORE
Where registered readers can access your books, read your biography, articles, and follow your ABooks Community activities
YOUR OWN STORE DASHBOARD
Manage your published books, articles, events, orders, payments, etc, from your Seller dashboard on PC/Tablet/Phone
KEEP YOUR ROYALTIES TO GENERATE AN INCOME
You preserve the explicit ownership of your content. We will collect payments and pay 75% of the sales revenue every 3 months
FULL CONTROL OF YOUR MANUSCRIPTS
You have full control of your content, books details and cover/images; you decide the price and release date; run sales campaign, etc.
FULL CONTROL OF YOUR FINANCES
Keep track of your clients orders, check how much royalties you have earned, commissions, refunds, etc.
PUBLIC ACTIVITY STREAM AND NEWS FEEDS
Share some news via a public activity streams and news feeds to create awareness for your books and reach out to new readers.
ABCommunity GROUPS AND FOLLOWERS
See which members are following you, and readers interested in your content. And, why not create your own ABCommunity group and invite readers to it?
BLOGS AND ARTICLES
Publish blogs and articles to showcase your writing style, raise awareness and promote your books
PROMOTIONAL PACKAGES
Buy a promotional package whenever need to promote, showcase your books on our most visited pages/areas such as Book of The Month/Week. Ideal for your Book Launches
FREE AUTHOR STORE AND DASHBOARD
PROFESSIONAL NARRATORS, CHARACTER ACTORS, AND VOICE OVER ARTISTS
If you want to become an audiobook Narrator, you’re in the right place!
We are looking for professional Narrators, Character Actors, and Voice Over Artists to create authentic, entertaining, and immersive text-synchronized audio books.
ABooks-RECORDER
Record professional quality text-synchronized audio books and earn royalties on each copy of the book sold.
Seen a book you would like to add your voice to? Get in touch with us and we will introduce you to the Author or owner of the content for further talks.
Or contact us to add your voice to a book in the Public Domain and earn 25% of the sales profits.
BOOK LOVERS AND FORCED READERS!
Enhance your reading experience with ABooks READER app
ABooks Reader combines the functions of an online book store, a cloud storage for your book collection, and an eBook/AudioBook reader – all in one app!
Download free of charge from AppleStore or Google Play for Android devices, create a free account, and get instant access to thousands of books including free text-synchronized Audio books. Discover new Authors.
Your Own Portable Cloud Library
Discover new Authors, browse our entire collection and buy books from within the App.
All your purchased books are securely stored in ABooks Cloud, ready to download to your PC, MAC, Tablet, Phone. Once Downloaded you don’t need internet access to read your books.
Enjoy Text-Synchronized Audio Books
Some people prefer audio over text and maybe you’re one of them!
An audiobook combines all of the features of the written text and the audio recordings of the text, in a single structured format.
ABooks are narrated by the Authors or by professional narrators (who are mostly actors); which gives our ABooks a natural, authentic, entertaining, and immersive appeal. By synchronizing the text and audio, you have the choice of reading the text and listening to the recordings independently or simultaneously. As the audio is played, the corresponding text is highlighted. This can be very helpful when learning new language, or for people who would like to improve their reading.
Audio books are great for multitasking. They are also a good solution for readers on the move (while commuting to work, walking or jogging). Or switch to Audio mode when you are simply too tired to read.
Engage with Other Readers with ABCommunity
Looking for new reading inspirations? Want to discuss inspiring stories? Find the ABCommunity that’s right for you, or create your own ABCommunity group.
Following and Friends Requests
Extend your network of friends by sending and accepting friend requests. You can unfriend at any time to stop communicating with a member. Direct private messaging between friends only, allowing to chat privately with trusted members. Instead of joining the list of friends, you can simply follow and unfollow a member.
ABooks Magz
Flip through your favorite Magazines from your laptop with a 3D animation
Join The Digital reading Revolution
STUDENTS AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS
This is an online collaboration platform where students from around the world can meet, share, and team up in order to contribute to global knowledge.
Publish
your academic papers with us for FREE
Access
other scholars’ papers, articles, thesis, and other academic literature for FREE
ABooks READER: Enhance your reading experience
ABooks RECORDER: Record your voice to produce text-synchronized audio books
ABooks MAGZ: Flip through your favorite Magazines from your laptop with a 3D animation
ABooks READER
Enhance your reading experience
ABooks RECORDER
Record professional quality text-synchronized audio books with your own voice or a narrator of your choice
ABooks Recorder is a cloud-based recording suite for Authors wanting to create an audio version of their writing, or Professional Narrators, Character Actors, and Voice Over Artists looking to generate an income from audio book sales.
Customize you voice,
Adjust tone and add effects to suit the story
Very easy to use, On-screen text display
Once the recording is completed, hit “Submit” and we will generate a text-synchronized audio book ready for publication within a few days
Load paragraphs individually to facilitate recording
Check which paragraphs/chapters have not been recorded yet
ABooks MAGZ
Flip through your favourite magazines from your Laptop, Tablet, Phone, PC, etc
eBook
eBooks are Electronic Books that can be read on electronic devices, such as computers, laptops, tablets, phones and eReaders. They are the eco-friendliest reading format that both reduces cost and lowers environmental impact.
eBooks can include images, graphics and other media for magazines, newspapers, novels, comics, recipe books
eBooks purchased on ABooks Community are in ePub3 format:
EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the “.epub” file extension. The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers. EPUB is a technical standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.
The Book Industry Study Group endorses EPUB 3 as the format of choice for packaging content and has stated that the global book publishing industry should rally around a single standard. The EPUB format is implemented as an archive file consisting of XHTML files carrying the content, along with images and other supporting files. EPUB is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML-based (as opposed to PDF) e-book format; that is, it is supported by almost all hardware readers, except for Kindle.
ABook
An ABook combines all of the features of the written text and the audio recordings of the text, in a single structured format. By synchronising the text and audio, you have the choice of reading the text and listening to the recordings independently or simultaneously. As the audio is played, the corresponding text is highlighted. They are great for multitasking (while doing housework for example) and they are also a good solution for readers on the move (while commuting to work, walking or jogging) or when you are simply too tired to read.
Our audio books are narrated by the Authors, or by professional narrators (who are mostly actors); which gives our ABooks a natural, authentic, entertaining, and immersive appeal.
Suddenly, the story is even more alive than it was on the page!
Audio Book
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. The term “talking book” came into being in the 1930s with government programs designed for blind readers, while the term “audiobook” came into use during the 1970s when audiocassettes began to replace records. In 1994, the Audio Publishers Association established the term “audiobook” as the industry standard. With the spread of the Internet to consumers in the 1990s, faster download speeds with broadband technologies, new compressed audio formats and portable media players, the popularity of audiobooks increased significantly during the late 1990s and 2000s.
Producing an audiobook consists of a narrator sitting in a recording booth reading the text, while a studio engineer and a director record and direct the performance. If a mistake is made the recording is stopped and the narrator reads it again. With recent advancements in recording technology, many audiobooks are also now recorded in home studios by narrators working independently.
Source: wikipedia.org
Audio Books purchased on our website do not include the text version. Please purchase the ABook digital format to benefit from Text-synchronization features.
Scanned (Images) PDF
Scanned (Images) Portable Document Format are created by scanning a paper document in order to create an electronic version of document. The scanner takes an image of a paper document and then stores it as an electronic PDF file, rather than electronically identifying each character on a page. Hence, the content of a scanned PDF cannot be searched, selected or edited.
Though Scanned (Images) PDF don’t offer the advanced reading options of other formats, they are a great option for book preservation and conservation, in an effort to address book deterioration due to natural ageing or damages.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CONTRACT
The ABooks Standard Author Contract is available from your Author Dashboard
We take copyright issues very seriously and want to ensure our Authors don’t infringe upon the rights of others.
Please do not hesitate to send an email to Legal@ABooks.co if your intellectual property has been published on our site without your authorization and we will take immediate action.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Create a free Author Account
No initial investment or budget. Though, we do charge 1 Euro fee to setup and verify your bank account. Sell up to 50 books per free account.
Customize Your Author Storefront
Choose your unique store Name, add your logo, images, biography or description, website URL, social media contacts
Upload your manuscripts and submit
Easy process to submit your manuscripts – You choose the price, and can run a limited period sales, etc
We will review your book and publish
Your book could be online within 24 hours!
We sell your books and collect payments
This is were you sit back and relax!
We pay your royalties every 3 months
The owner of the content get 75% of the sales profit while 25% is reinvested in the Community. Payment are made directly to your verified bank or paypal account
Keep track of your finances
Log into your account anytime to check your income and sales transactions
Promote your writing
Submit Blogs and articles to showcase your wriint style and promote your books
Record Text-Synchronize Audio Book
Record Text Synchronized version of your book to generate further income.
