Listening Shelf

A shelf where ebooks, video and audio stand together, and a PDF beneath them is turning into an audiobook with a choice of voices.

Ebooks, video and audio stand together on one shelf, and a PDF can be turned into an audiobook, read aloud in a choice of synthesised voices. Collections, annotations and course material sit alongside. For a publisher or teacher, it is the shelf your readers keep: what you have made, held for good, with a place to listen. Under licence the shelf wears your name, your domain and your colours, and keeps its own database. It does not draw in a browser today. It is being finished, and can be finished with you.

Listening Shelf is the house's name for it. Under licence it takes yours. The people who use it see your name at the top, your domain in the address, your colours on the page, and never the house's.

• Your nameThe app is introduced as yours, on every screen they open.
• Your domainIt answers at an address you hold, so the link you give is the link they keep.
• Your recordsWhat your people write in it is kept in a database of its own, as yours, not pooled with anyone else's.

It is being finished. It can be finished with you, so that the version you carry is shaped by the people it is for.

• Ebooks, video and audio together
• PDF to audiobook in synthesised voices
• Collections and annotations
• Courses and progress
• Discussion beside the books

Publishers, teachers and course makers with a body of work to keep.

Read beside the field it serves, the school, the press and the author: A book that can be taught, under your imprint, in a room that reads like one.

It was made beside the house's own press, which sets its books as issues of a magazine and keeps them in print for good.

The books it was made beside are kept in The Library, to be read before any conversation, so the voice the app speaks in is known first.

1. Read from The Library, so the voice behind Listening Shelf is known before anything is asked.
2. See Listening Shelf beside the apps chosen with it for your field, below.
3. Request a conversation. A few lines are enough: your name, your practice, and which app.
4. The fitting: Listening Shelf shown wearing your name and your colours.
5. The terms, in sentences: what you keep, what it costs, and how you would leave.
6. Live on your domain, with your people's records in a database of its own.

The terms are set in conversation with Ammanuel and written in sentences, never on this page.

Luminous BookFlow

Every book on your list carried into posts, articles and episodes, with you as the editor.

First Edition

A manuscript taken to a finished book in five steps, under your press's name.

The Seminar

Your books taught as courses, with lessons, classmates and certificates, under your school's name.

All 130 are in the White Label Directory.