Audio Book Contractor’s Incorporated is an organization that is committed to the recording of unabridged classic novels, children’s books, poetry, plays and collections of short stories for use by the general public as well as for schools and libraries.

Flo Gibson started the company in 1983. After a successful career that ranged from radio drama to service with the USO to recording books with organizations such as Recorded Books, Books On Tape and the Library of Congress, Flo came to realize that few recording companies were including the classics in their catalogues. Realizing the importance of preserving such works for the listening public, she created her own company, Audio Book Contractors, Inc. Utilizing the services of audio expert Bill West from the Library of Congress, Flo had a soundproof booth and recording equipment installed in her basement in Washington, DC. She then employed local talent to help her in the recording, monitoring, packaging and distribution of all varieties of classic books on cassettes. Some of these early employees, such as Grover Gardner, Mary Woods and John MacDonald, have gone on to continue their careers with great success in the recorded book industry and related fields.

In later years, Audio Book Contractors, Inc. began to convert selected works to compact discs and its collection of titles in this format is even now steadily increasing in size. A few years later, the company joined into a partnership with Audible.com, one of the world’s largest audio downloading websites. Through this latest collaboration, we hope to bring the joy of these classic books to whole new generations of listeners.

With the inception of this organization, Flo has set off a journey of love that has continued to this day. Audio Book Contractors, Inc. has brought more than 900 unabridged versions of literature’s finest works to the listening public. Our catalogue of titles include novels and short stories by such authors as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, the Brontes, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and a host of others, plays that range from Shakespeare to Shaw, an extensive collection of books for young listeners, poetry by the likes of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and even a book of poems by our own Flo Gibson!

Audio Book Contractors, Inc. recently celebrated its 25th anniversary And Flo Gibson is still sitting by the microphone, bring more novels, plays and short stories to brilliant life. She has recently completed her 1,130th recording for her vast library of unabridged recorded books and is constantly in search of more titles that we can share with our listening audience.

We invite you to accompany us on a voyage through some of the finest literature that the world has known. We believe that once you set out on your journey, you will want to travel with us as far as you can. We thank you for allowing us to share these treasures with you and we hope that you get as much joy out of listening to these recordings as we have received in creating them for you.