The best books ever written are out of copyright. Anyone may publish them, and anyone may record them. Most have never been given a decent recording — or the recording exists and is locked inside somebody's subscription. We are making them properly, as files you keep.
These are the books being worked on first. None of them is finished, and none is available to download yet — when one is, it will appear here with a price and a sample.
We are open about the process, including the parts that use synthesis, because you deserve to know what you are listening to before you buy it.
Sourced from Project Gutenberg, which has spent fifty years digitising and proofing books whose copyright has expired. Every recording records where its text came from.
The text is structured into real chapters, with front matter, footnotes and transcription artefacts removed, so the recording follows the book rather than the file.
Recorded with synthesised narration, chapter by chapter. Where a book carries distinct voices, characters are given consistent ones rather than a single flat read.
Assembled into chaptered files with correct metadata and cover art, at a consistent level, in formats any player can open.
Copyright expires. Once it has, a work enters the public domain and anyone may publish, adapt, perform or record it without permission and without paying a licence. That is not a loophole — it is the deal that copyright was built on, and it is what makes a project like this possible.
Every title we work on is checked before any work starts, and the position is recorded per jurisdiction, because the rules genuinely differ:
Our recordings are our own work, so the audio itself is ours to sell. The underlying text is nobody's to own, and we make no claim over it.
If you believe we have got a rights position wrong on any title, please tell us at hello@miabazo.com and we will take it down while we check.
Our recordings are ordinary audio files with no DRM. They work in any player that opens an M4B or an MP3 — ours included, but there is nothing to stop you using something else.