Books in Videos was created during the pandemic aiming to expose larger % of global population to the rich knowledge prevalent in various old books.
Video Books is a unique way to experience a book. These Video Books tap into your visual & auditory senses simultaneously making it an unique and a wonderful experience of going through the entire book in an audio and video format.
Books In Videos have uniquely created these Video Books which have never been created or presented in this form earlier.
When the pandemic hit the world in 2020 I was a Director in an organization under the brand name Let Us Talk www.let-ustalk.com a fully owned subsidy of Utopian Business Solution Pvt. Ltd. which focused on Developing Human Capital.
80 percent of our corporate outbound and classroom trainings got cancelled.
I was not sure how I could handle this unprecedented event. Pressure was building up from all sides but I kept moving forward. After 6 years of entrepreneurship I never want go back to a regular job and wanted someone to guide me – motivate me-Inspire me .
During that time every individual was trying to adapt this new phenomena in different ways, few tried their hands in cooking few in agriculture and few started converting their business online.
One of my friends invited me to an online reading club. With a lot of time at hand I decided to join that reading club in which old rich book written by great authors were read.
I admit that I Got inspired , motivated, charged and I decided that this kind of knowledge has to be transmitted to the world in the more simplistic, most consumable, interesting and exciting form.
And I decided to act and create Video Books of the books from the old era where the authors had created such rich masterpieces which had the power to change direction of one’s life.
Such Video Books were never ever been created and Online Video BooksTM was thus born.
I started with the book ‘The science of getting rich.
My wife helped me create a summarized script for the book and an old colleague helped me with creative logo.
I had a tough time recording myself and I soon realized that there was more work to be done. I had to work on my tone, my voice modulation and also my delivery speed.
Ultimately, we launched with 3 video books in the month September 2020 on a leading digital platform.
We failed miserably.
Giving up has never been a cup of my tea. And I decide to make another attempt.
I must again admit that it was was due to these rich books which I was reading, motivated me to standup and attempt again to realize my dreams.
And I started giving access to the video books to my friends for free and requested them for a honest feedback.
And few good old friends feedback was very brutal, honest and hard to digest.
I am indeed grateful to every individual who enabled me to find the gaps that could be further improvised to create a better version of Video Books.
And I started to invest in professional devices and hardware which enabled me to read in front of the camera and improve the quality by notches.
I will forever be grateful to my family members who unselfishly helped me from all directions – Starting from financial investment’s, support and most important best wishes.
They also got me connected with more people who were interested to read books and were willing to write a chapter wise summary as a script – Creators.
And our team expanded with our first creator & narrator joining this campaign on 20th August 2021. I will always be grateful to Her, as She helped in connecting us with more creators and narrators. And later many intellectuals came forward to record the chapters which they themselves were creating.
And by then, we needed editors to edit the videos and make them more engaging to achieve world class quality video books.
Now, as I lookback, what started as a small idea began to take shape and www.booksinvideos.com was born.
And here we are today with intellectual individuals as creators of the scripts , narrators to narrate the video book , creative editors to make video books interesting and meeting international standards, and marketers to propagate Video Books globally.
Together we have completed 16 Video Books and many more are in the pipeline at the rate of 3 new video books in production every month.
What a journey it has been.
Best Regards
Vikas Ummat
CREATOR is a person who after reading the specific book creates the summary in their own words chapter wise. Creator needs to ensure that essence of the message from the author remains the same.The creator needs to bring out the message and the learnings the author wishes to communicate through the specific book.
NARRATOR is the person who narrates the created content of the specific book in front of the audio and video recording device.