About Us
Armed with years of recording experience, Flo Gibson decided, at age 60, to start her own recording company, Audio Book Contractors, Inc. Although its original business plan was to record books for outside customers (hence, the word “Contractors”), Flo soon realized that her true love lay in keeping unabridged classic literature alive and accessible to the listening public.
Installing a state-of-the-art recording booth in the basement of her home (from where every book on this website was recorded) Flo hired local talent, mainly from the Washington theater community, to help record, engineer, manufacture and distribute ABC’s ever-growing library of classic titles.
When Flo passed in 2011, she had recorded 1,134 unabridged books in her illustrious career – over 650 of them for her own company.
At the time when ABC started in 1983, cassettes were the medium on which most books were recorded. The first music CD had just hit the commercial market a few months earlier. Downloads would not even exist for decades. Now we carry many of our titles on either CD or as downloads from Audible.com.
And as for whatever format is preparing to become the next future of audio books, Mr. Twain, Miss Austen, Mr. Dickens, Ms Cather, Mr. Trollope, Ms Wharton, Mr. Shakespeare and the rest of our literary family can’t wait to be a part of it.
Supporting World Central Kitchen
Audio Book Contractors is proud to support World Central Kitchen, an organization that is first to the front lines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.
Applying their model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, WCK has served more than 450 million nourishing meals at home and around the world. When disaster strikes, WCK’s Relief Team mobilizes with the urgency of now to start cooking and serving meals to people and communities in need.
By working with organizations on the ground and activating a network of local restaurants, food trucks, and emergency kitchens, WCK is able to serve comforting meals to disaster survivors quickly and effectively. To support regional economies, WCK also prioritizes purchasing local ingredients to cook with or distribute directly to families in need.
We are honored to support WCK’s mission, knowing that good food provides not only nourishment, but also comfort and hope—especially in times of crisis.
And our donations all come from the royalties that we earn when you download one of our books from Audible.com. No gimmicks. No strings attached. You download any of our books from Audible and we'll see that a portion of our royalties from that purchase goes directly to World Central Kitchen.
