Thursday, November 1, 2007

Audio Book Fortress

Video presenting Audio Book Fortress, an audio book store offering high quality, world leading publishers' titles across hundreds of categories, in non-propietary formats such as MP3 and WMA.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Audio Business Book

It is undeniable that one of the most important things that business people must do to keep up to date is read business books. However, people with important positions in many companies have to deal with a big problem due to their responsibility positions: lack of time.

I have recently had the opportunity to read some interviews to managers and company directors, where they were asked which was the last business book they have read. And most of them hadn't read one for a long time, they couldn't during the day because they didn't have time, and were very tired to do it at night when they returned home. So we were having a generation of managers, or people with responsibility positions in companies that were not reading business books.

Fortunately for them, there is a big new trend, there are lot of business books that have been recorded to obtain audio business books. Now they can listen to that audio business book when they are traveling to work, or returning home in their car, or while they are doing other tasks, such as while they are doing exercise. In this way, they can keep updated with the latest methods, trends, news about business in general, or the area where they specialize.

I presume if I listen to some similar interviews with business people in the near future, they will say something like: Well, I have not read any business books in the last days or months, but I have listened to lots of them!


Alberto Abudara is the owner of Audio Book Fortress, an mp3 audio book store, offering world leading publishers' titles across hundreds of categories.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Audio Book Sale - How to profit from it

In the last months, the number of audio book stores offering an audio book sale has increased exponentially. It seems that everybody is selling them and to be able to compete they are offering in most of the cases a big audio book sale with great discounts.

How can a normal person profit from this, earning some extra money?

Basically there are two things you can do :


1) Convert your books or e-books to audio books


If you have written a book or e-book , and you are having problems to sell it, you can create an audio version of it. Unless you have a great voice, you should look for some professional voices to do it for you, perhaps in some of those websites where you can post projects to be done by freelancers. Then you can promote it on the web, or offer it to some of the audio book stores which are offering an audio book sale.


2) Affiliate Programs

You can sign-up as an affiliate in one of the mentioned stores offering an audio book sale. Almost every website selling audio books, has an affiliate program, as it is an excellent way to increase sales with little effort. Although the stores are receiving less money for each sell, if they have a good affiliate program, with good commissions, they can increase the number of sales, having a good number of people offering its audio books.

As you can see, these are two ways to join this exciting new trend, without spending hundreds of dollars in setting up an audio book store or similar business.


And the next time you hear the phrase "Audio Book Sale", you will smile, as you will be part of one or more of them.


Alberto Abudara is the owner of Audio Book Fortress, an mp3 audio book store, offering world leading publishers' titles across hundreds of categories.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Download Free Audio Books

There is a great number of websites offering to download free audio books, e-books about different topics, also free software. Somebody may wonder why are they offering that, is there any hidden reason to do it or they are simply generous and like to give away free stuff.

At first, one would think they are losing money, why giving away for example a free audio book when they can charge for it. However, lots of people query the search engines with the word free, trying to find free stuff, maybe because they don't want to spend money on the web, maybe in certain countries they are afraid to use their credit card online. Offering free content, is a great way to receive a great number of visitors in your web site. But, if they are looking for free things, you may think its useless to have them as a visitor. That's not right ! Maybe they won't buy now, but if they sign-up to the site or a newsletter in the site, the owner of the website will have the possibility to sell him things in the future, perhaps offering some great opportunities such as a discounted items only for people in that list.

On the other hand, visitors to the site may click in some of the ads or banners the website has, perhaps also offering to download free audio books, and that would also make the website owner earn money.

From the customers point of view, what should be done ? Maybe say: "They are cheating me, I won't download nothing, they only want me to buy" That would be useless, it would be a better idea to visit the site that offers free audio books, and check if they like any of the free titles offered. Also if the website has ads, visit other sites which may also offer to download free audio books.

And who knows, maybe some time after, there is a great offer, and you will finish buying a very interesting audio book you hadn't thought about.

Alberto Abudara is the owner of Audio Book Fortress, http://www.audiobookfortress.com, an audio book store offering more than 30 audio books free. Click on the FREE Tab.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Spanish Audio Books

Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world. If you look for keyword searches in any search engine for any product, there will be searches related to that product, asking for information in Spanish, or for example in the case of books or audio books, a Spanish version of it.

As it was said, audio books are not the exception. There are hundreds of people looking for "Spanish audio books" or "audio book in Spanish" in most of the search engines and directories.

Fortunately, there are some audio book stores that are starting to have spanish audio books as one of their categories. There are some classic titles such as Papa Rico, Papa Pobre o La Ola Latina that can be found on almost all audio book stores.

In addition, there are other important categories in which people looking for spanish audio books can be interested. These are language learning audio books, as an audio book is an excellent tool to learn a foreign language, because you can also learn the correct pronunciation of words.

The most common Spanish audio books in these categories at this moment are English courses for Spanish speakers, but without any doubt in the near future, a spanish speaker will be able to learn any language.

So people looking for a Spanish audio book should visit the different audio book stores where they will find a good number of titles to choose from, and that number will grow in the next months and years.

Alberto Abudara is the owner of Audio Book Fortress (http://www.audiobookfortress.com), an audio book store offering world leading publishers' titles across hundreds of categories in standard formats as MP3 or WMA.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Audio Book For The Blind

Imagine a group of friends having a good time, talking about different things. After a while, they start to talk about the Da Vinci Code film. Some of them had read the book and had not watch the film yet, others had read the book and also watched the film, so all of them have a good knowledge of what is the story about, so they can participate in the discussion.

Imagine now that one of those friends is blind.

Some years ago, he would have been out of the discussion. He would not have been able to watch the film, and unless someone had read the book to him (hundreds of pages!), of course he would not have been able to know about it.

But he is one of the most active participants in the discussion, talking about every detail of Da Vinci Code. How? Because he owns a Da Vinci Code Audiobook!

An audio book for the blind is an excellent solution, and not only best sellers as the mentioned audio book are found in audio book stores, but also thousands of different titles across hundreds of categories, such as history, humor, business, self help and many more.

And every day appear new ones, so in the near future they will find almost any printed book as an audio book. For the blind these are excellent news, they will be able to listen to all kind of books, and never be out of a discussion about a best seller.

Alberto Abudara is the owner of Audio Book Fortress (http://www.audiobookfortress.com), an audio book store offering world leading publishers' titles across hundreds of categories in standard formats as MP3 or WMA.